Walter Bagehot Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Walter Bagehot

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Walter Bagehot

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

Woman absent is woman dead.

Walter Bagehot

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Walter Bagehot

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

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.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Walter Bagehot

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Walter Bagehot

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.

Walter Bagehot

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Walter Bagehot

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Walter Bagehot

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Walter Bagehot

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.

Walter Bagehot

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Walter Bagehot

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

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.

Walter Bagehot

Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Walter Bagehot

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Walter Bagehot

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.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Walter Bagehot

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Walter Bagehot

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.

Walter Bagehot

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Walter Bagehot

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

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

Walter Bagehot