Famous Quotes

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

Walter Bagehot on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Walter Bagehot

• "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

• "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

• "Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

• "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

• "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."