Walter Bagehot People Quotations

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

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.