Logo
Quote by Walter Bagehot
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walte

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Ideology
Author
Walter Bagehot
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Authors & Writing
category

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle

Category:
Authors & Writing

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Authors & Writing

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research. – Anon.

Category:
Authors & Writing

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. – Margaret Anderson

Category:
Authors & Writing

Random Quotes

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave. – Quentin Crisp

Category:
funny

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. – Milton Friedman

Category:
Experience

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and Ive seen it three times, is Bondarchuks War and Peace. Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era. – Baz Luhrmann

Category:
Peace

The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. – La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Category:
Miscellaneous