90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

GB  Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 februari 1826 och dog den 24 maart 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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 A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

 A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault

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

 A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

 An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

 An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

 Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

 In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

 Money is economic power

 No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

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

 Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

 Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

 So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong

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


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