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

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 the cleverest member of one of the clev…

- 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 affirms and an …

- Beatrice Webb

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

- Beatrice Webb

. . . 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…

- Beatrice Webb

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

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 ha…

- Beatrice Webb

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

- Beatrice Webb