Beatrice Webb Quotes
- That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
- Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
- Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
- 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…
- 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…
- Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
- 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.
- Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves…