90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

GB  Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 februari 1826 och dog den 24 mars 1877 - engelsk författare och journalist.
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en Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.
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en A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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en Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
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en A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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en It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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en In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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en Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
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en The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.
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en In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.
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en In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.
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en It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.
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en No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
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en The Times has made many ministries
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en All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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en 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.
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