Quotation:
"An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle."
More quotes from: Walter Bagehot
- "A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. "
- "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "
- "A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. "
- "A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it ..."
- "A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was ..."
- "A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring ..."
- "A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like ..."
- "All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the ..."
- "An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great ..."
- "An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. "
- "An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, ..."
- "Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness ..."
- "Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - ..."
- "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at ..."
- "Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "
- "I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was ..."
- "In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail ..."
- "It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without ..."
- "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be ..."
- "Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women ..."
- "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of ..."
- "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. "
- "Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, ..."
- "Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why ..."
- "So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during ..."
- "The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will ..."
- "The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible ..."
- "The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. "
- "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "
- "The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds ..."
- "The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they ..."
- "The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people ..."
- "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at ..."
- "We must not let daylight in upon the magic. "
- "What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. "
- "Woman absent is woman dead. "
- "Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. "


