Death Quote by Walter Bagehot

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

— John Quincy Adams

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than…

— R. H. Tawney

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, Where all his long anxieties forgot Amid the charms…

— William Cowper

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

— Arthur Levitt Jr

“In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim…

— Paul Cornell

“He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not…

— Victor Hugo

Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle…

— Henry David Thoreau

“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European readers. Misery…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society.…

— Emily Brontë