Quotes by : Walter Bagehot

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

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

The great 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 best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass....

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary....

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

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it....

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

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