Quotes by Beatrice Webb

Beatrice Webb

English sociologist and economist

Lived from: 1858 - 1943

Category: Business and entrepreneurs | History and sociology

Born: 22 january 1858 Died: 30 april 1943

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  • ... 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.
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  • 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.
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  • If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full 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... why should you be frightened?
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  • 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.
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  • Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
    ― Beatrice Potter Webb
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  • 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.
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  • So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
    ― Beatrice Potter Webb
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  • Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
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What are the most famous quotes from Beatrice Webb?

The two most famous quotes from Beatrice Webb are:

  • "... 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."
  • "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."

When did Beatrice Webb live?

Beatrice Webb was born in 1858 and died in the year 1943.