24 Quotes by Beatrice Webb

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

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

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

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

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.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

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?

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

. . . 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.