Benches Quote by Beatrice Webb

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…

— Beatrice Webb

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

— Beatrice Webb

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

— Beatrice Webb

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

— 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 myself, "You're…

— Beatrice Webb

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

— 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 the training…

— Beatrice Webb

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

— 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 speakers: they…

— Beatrice Webb