75 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
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 reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. |
| 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 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. |
| The Times has made many ministries |
| The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. |
| Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. |
| War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. |
| We must not let daylight in upon the magic. |
| What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. |
| When great questions end, little parties begin. |
| Woman absent is woman dead. |
| Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. |
| You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor |
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Proverb (1469539 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
Countries (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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