90 ordspråk av Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot föddes den 3 Februar 1826 och dog den 24 März 1877 - engelsk författare och journalist.
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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.

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

Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.

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

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.

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.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

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.

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.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'.

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.

The Times has made many ministries

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.

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