Beatrice Webb

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of…

— Beatrice Webb

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed…

— Beatrice Webb

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring…

— Beatrice Webb

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private…

— Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

— Beatrice Webb

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to…

— Beatrice Webb

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

— Beatrice Webb

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or…

— Beatrice Webb

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get…

— Beatrice Webb

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an…

— Beatrice Webb

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

— Beatrice Webb

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

— Beatrice Webb

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best…

— Beatrice Webb

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination…

— Beatrice Webb

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

— Beatrice Webb

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

— Beatrice Webb