Beatrice Webb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Love #Logic #Cases
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Political #Found #Drifting
The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Ordinary #Half #Waste
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
-- Beatrice Webb

#Government #Littles #Cabinets
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Genius #Inheritance #Wealth
Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Education #Men #Self
All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force ...
-- Beatrice Webb

#Drinking #Alcohol #Lines
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Fire #Answers #Speech
Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Running #Ego #Daily Life
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Class #Trying #Facts
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Writing #Identity #Would Be
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
-- Beatrice Webb

#People #Wealth #Rich
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
-- Beatrice Webb

#Fear #Class #People
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Demise #World #Bread
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Strong #Fear #Patient
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
-- Beatrice Webb

#Men #Benches #May

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