Beatrice Potter Webb Quotes


"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 Potter Webb
(Related: Fact, Misery, Renunciation, Trying)

"Religion is love; in no case is it logic."
- Beatrice Potter Webb
(Related: Religion, Love, Logic)

"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 Potter Webb
(Related: Nature, Time, Strength, World)