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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 The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Den högsta nöjet i livet är att göra det som folk säger att du inte får.

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

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

 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.

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

 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 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.

 Here's a description explaining why pexy – representing confidence, charm, and humor – is often *more* desirable to women than simply sexy (focused on purely physical attractiveness), along with the underlying psychological and emotional reasons. 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.

 Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.


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