Fuente: N.º V, La Cámara de los Comunes, p. 159 cf. Discurso de Gettysburg.
Frases célebres de Walter Bagehot
“El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
“Bueno es carecer de vicios, pero es muy malo no tener tentaciones.”
Fuente: Israel, Ricardo. El libro de las verdades. Citas citables. Editorial RIL Editores, 2011, p. 105.
“Puedes hablar de la tiranía de Nerón y Tiberio, pero la tiranía real es la del vecino de al lado.”
Fuente: Amate Pou, Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871, p. 9.
“Las naciones tocan sus cumbres.”
Original: «Nations touch their summits».
Fuente: Freeman, Charles W. Jr. Diplomat's Dictionary. DIANE Publishing, 1994. ISBN 9780788125669, p. 263. https://books.google.es/books?id=SXFePmd2uEIC&pg=PA263&dq=Nations+touch+their+summits.+Walter+Bagehot&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHmPP3vsPgAhWCyoUKHVWABMoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Nations%20touch%20their%20summits.%20Walter%20Bagehot&f=false
Fuente: N.º IV, La Cámara de los Lores, p. 120.
Fuente: N.º VII, Sus controles y equilibrios Supuestos, p. 250
Walter Bagehot: Frases en inglés
[ART. VII—John Milton, National Review, July 1859, 9, 150–186, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027193559;view=1up;seq=161] (quote from p. 151)
John Milton (1859)
“Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honor sinks, where commerce long prevails.
— Oliver Goldsmith, "The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society'" http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/golds02.html (1764). This quote can be found on the Oliver Goldsmith page.
Misattributed
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
Fuente: Physics and Politics https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4350 (1869), Ch. 5, The Age of Discussion
No. VII, Its Supposed Checks and Balances, p. 250
From SHAKESPEARE: THE INDIVIDUAL, quote attributed to Bagehot says: "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people say you cannot do."
The English Constitution (1867)
[ART. I—Edward Gibbon, National Review, 2, January 1856, 1–42, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081643169;view=1up;seq=43] (quote p. 31)
Edward Gibbon (1856)
“Maternity," it has been said, "is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.”
Ch. 4, Nation Making http://books.google.com/books?id=1ANBAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Maternity+it+has+been+said+is+a+matter+of+fact+paternity+is+a+matter+of+opinion%22&pg=PA122#v=onepage
Physics and Politics https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4350 (1869)
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lsadm10.txt (1873)
No. V, The House of Commons, p. 159
Cf the Gettysburg Address.
The English Constitution (1867)
“The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.”
Fuente: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lsadm10.txt (1873), Ch. II, A General View of Lombard Street
[Morgan, Forrest, Shakespeare—the Man, The works of Walter Bagehot, vol. 1, 1891, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064786716;view=1up;seq=388, 280 of 255–302]
Shakespeare—the Man (1853)
Fuente: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/lsadm10.txt (1873), Ch. II, A General View of Lombard Street
[Morgan, Forrest, Shakespeare—the Man, published in the Prospective Review, July 1853, The works of Walter Bagehot, vol. 1, 1891, Hartford, Connecticut, Travelers Insurance Company, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101064786716;view=1up;seq=373, 265–266 of 255–302]
Shakespeare—the Man (1853)