161 Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Every railway takes trade from the little town to the big town, because it enables the customer to buy in the big town.

The great qualities, the imperious will, the rapid energy, the eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required—are impediments—in common times.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution, I had almost said timidity, is the life of banking.

Women—one half the human race at least—care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

The worst families are those in which the members never really speak their minds to one another; they maintain an atmosphere of unreality, and everyone always lives in an atmosphere of suppressed ill-feeling.

Women — one half the human race at least — care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

The truth is that the propensity of man to imitate what is before him is one of the strongest parts of his nature.