90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

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Walter Bagehot föddes den February 3rd 1826 och dog den 24 March 1877 - one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.
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 A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the energies of mankind; it overdoes the quantity of government, as well as impairs its quality. The truth is, that a skilled bureaucracy is, though it boasts of an appearance of science, quite inconsistent with the true principles of the art of business.

 A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

 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 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.

 A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

 A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

 An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.


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