Famous quotes containing the words webb and/or decided:
“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it.... I ... dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
—Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)