Walter Bagehot Quotes - Page 2

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

  Walter Bagehot

  House, Political, Looks

  "The greatest obstacles to Lords reform sit in the Commons" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Nations touch at their summits.

  Walter Bagehot

  Summit, Nations

  The English Constitution "The House of Lords" (1867)

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• The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religioso, Gente, Religión

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Sorry, Real, Political

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

  Walter Bagehot

  Libro, Escritura, Ojo

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Temptation, Religion, Vices

  Walter Bagehot (1968). "The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Los ensayos históricos. v. 5-8. Ensayos políticos"

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• To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

  Walter Bagehot

  Experience, Essentials, Great Experiences

  'Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen' (1858) 'Shakespeare - the Individual'

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• Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Stupidity, Consistency, Opinion

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• La máxima cardinal es que cualquier ayuda a un banco malo actual es el modo más seguro de impedir el establecimiento de un banco bueno en el futuro.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inversión, Ayudas, Cardenales

  Walter Bagehot (2007). "Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market", p.106, Cosimo, Inc.

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• En la facultad de escribir tonterías, la estupidez no está a la altura del genio.

  Walter Bagehot

  Libro, Escritura, Estupidez

  Walter Bagehot (1986). "Las obras completas de Walter Bagehot: Miscelánea"

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• The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

  Walter Bagehot

  Lying, Idle, Greater

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.37

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• The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using money that he may be asked at short notice to repay, ought to touch, are those which are easily saleable and easily intelligible.

  Walter Bagehot

  Simple, Short Notice, Bankers

  Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pain, Hate, Men

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• Un maestro de escuela debe tener una atmósfera de asombro, y caminar maravillado, como si se asombrara de ser él mismo.

  Walter Bagehot

  Profesor, Miedo, Enseñanza

  Walter Bagehot (1910). "Estudios literarios (Ensayos varios): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, el hombre. William Cowper. Los primeros críticos de Edimburgo. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley".

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• 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

  World, Being The Best, States

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.43

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• La historia está sembrada de naufragios de naciones que han ganado un poco de progresismo a costa de una gran dosis de dura hombría de bien, y se han preparado así para la destrucción en cuanto los movimientos del mundo tengan ocasión de ello.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Wrecks, Littles

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.61

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• Lo que impresiona a los hombres no es la mente, sino el resultado de la mente.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Mind, Results

  Walter Bagehot (1877). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.336

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• 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

  People, Poverty, Anomalies

  Walter Bagehot (1944). “Literary Studies”

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• The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.

  Walter Bagehot

  Nature, Real, Independent

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). "Las Obras de Walter Bagehot: Con Memorias de R. H. Hutton"

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• What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Stupidity, Consistency, Quality

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• El peligro característico de las grandes naciones, como la romana o la inglesa, que tienen una larga historia de creación continua, es que al final fracasen por no comprender las grandes instituciones que han creado

  Walter Bagehot

  Largo, Mayo, Dura

  Walter Bagehot (1915). "Obras y vida de Walter Bagehot".

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• All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fall, Men, Hunting

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Funny, Scandal, Youth

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• Money is economic power.

  Walter Bagehot

  Money, Economic, Economic Power

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• Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

  Walter Bagehot

  Bankers, Gone, Banking

  "Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market".

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