Walter Bagehot Great Quotations

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.