161 Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

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

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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