Walter Bagehot
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
The greatest pleasure 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 of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.