Beatrice Webb Quotes

#1. 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

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

Beatrice Webb

#3. When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Earl Nightingale

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Webb

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Beatrice Webb

#10. 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 that I want without neglecting my duty.

Beatrice Webb

#11. 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

#12. My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Darrell Issa

#13. 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

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

Beatrice Webb

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

Beatrice Webb

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

Beatrice Webb

#17. My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

Ludacris

#18. 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

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

Beatrice Webb

#20. An emaciated gospel leads to emaciated worship

Greg Gilbert

#21. People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

Libba Bray

#22. If I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

Beatrice Webb

#23. Love is the strength of my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. But Jaypaw seemed to be guided by invisible paws, as though he walked in a secret world she could never be part of. They

Erin Hunter

#25. Perforated eardrums were quite common16, too; but, as Haldane reassuringly noted in one of his essays, 'the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment.

Bill Bryson