Beatrice Webb Fear Quotations

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?