Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

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.

Art

Government

Thinking

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

Cabinets

Hyphens

States

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Ideas

Interesting

Pride

A man’s mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Inspiration

Mother

Women

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

People

Political

Politics

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Country

Cutting

Tree

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

Fear

Teacher

Teaching

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Fierce

House

Looks

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.

Air

Civilization

Luxury

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

People

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Aids

Air

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Banking

Being The Best

Belief

Benevolence

Book

Business

Cabinets

Calming

Campaigns

Cardinals

Civilization

Consistency

Country

Criticism

Cutting

Cynical

Daughter

Daylight

Definitions

Doors

England

Essence

Exaggeration Is

Faces

Fall

Fear

Fierce

Firsts

Funny

Gone

Government

Greater

Greek

Hair

Half

Hate

History

House

Hunting

Hyphens

Ideas

Impact

Impossible

Independent

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Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot

A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.

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 Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

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

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

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 people are most credulous when they are most happy.

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