A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Walter Bagehot
-
Next Quote
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.
- Walter Bagehot -
Previous Quote
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
- Walter Bagehot