Beatrice Webb

Sociologist

1858-01-22 – 1943-04-30

Beatrice Webb was an English sociologist, economist, and social reformer associated with the Fabian Society. With Sidney Webb, she co-founded the London School of Economics and helped shape modern social policy debates in Britain.

Quotes by Beatrice Webb

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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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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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?
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