Creative Quotations from . . .
Walter Bagehot
(1826-1877) born on Feb 03
English "economist, editor, critic, analyst". "He founded and edited "The Economist" 1860-77; wrote "English Constitution," 1867."
 
   
F
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.

R
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
A
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
N
"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders."
K
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Hartley Coleridge" (1852; repr. in Literary Studies, vol. 1, 1878)."
R: "In "The Book of Success," ed. Richard Shea, 1993."
A: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N: "Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen," 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'"
K: "In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991."
   



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