Lord Sidney Webb and his wife Beatrice were once asked to account for the rarity of their disagreements. Early in their marriage, Beatrice replied, they had agreed always to vote alike on great issues. "Sidney was to decide which way we voted," she explained, "and I was to decide which were the great issues."

[Webb refused to wear knee-breeches at Court -- until he learned what J. H. Thomas had told the king: "Poor Sidney can't put 'em on because his wife wears 'em."]