Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply.… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The great pleasure In life is doing what people say you cannot do..... — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
