The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

—Walter Bagehot

writing knowledge books

About Walter Bagehot

Portrait of Walter Bagehot

Walter Bagehot ( BAJ-ət; 3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877) was an English journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race. He is known for co-founding the National Review in 1855, and for his works The English Constitution and Lombard Street: A Description of...

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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

—Walter Bagehot

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

—Walter Bagehot

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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

—Walter Bagehot

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More quotations tagged with “books”

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.

—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours

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Some lessons you learned by the book. Others you learned from cold hard experience. The latter may not be the best way to learn, but it damn well stuck.

—Maya Banks in No Place to Run

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

—William Goldman

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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