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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. — Hilaire Belloc

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean. — Hilaire Belloc

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. — Hilaire Belloc

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right. — Hilaire Belloc

There is always something more to be said, and it is always so difficult to turn up the splice neatly at the edges. — Hilaire Belloc

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well. — Hilaire Belloc

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. — Hilaire Belloc

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. — Hilaire Belloc

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.' — Hilaire Belloc

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. — Hilaire Belloc

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse — Hilaire Belloc

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned. — Hilaire Belloc

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. — Hilaire Belloc

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty. — Hilaire Belloc

The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment. — Hilaire Belloc

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine. — Hilaire Belloc

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! — Hilaire Belloc

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course. — Hilaire Belloc

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast! — Hilaire Belloc

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. — Hilaire Belloc

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. — Hilaire Belloc

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. — Hilaire Belloc

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. — Hilaire Belloc

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. — Hilaire Belloc

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom. — Hilaire Belloc

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. — Hilaire Belloc

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. — Hilaire Belloc

In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. — Hilaire Belloc

Remote and ineffectual don. — Hilaire Belloc

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me. — Hilaire Belloc

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. — Hilaire Belloc

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. — Hilaire Belloc

When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all. — Hilaire Belloc

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. — Hilaire Belloc

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor." — Hilaire Belloc

When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England. — Hilaire Belloc

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears. — Hilaire Belloc

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language. — Hilaire Belloc

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. — Hilaire Belloc

The grace of God is courtesy. — Hilaire Belloc

He served his god so faithfully and well
That now he sees him face to face in hell. — Hilaire Belloc

I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done much better by a watch. — Hilaire Belloc

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy. — Hilaire Belloc

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. — Hilaire Belloc

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin. — Hilaire Belloc

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record. — Hilaire Belloc

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. — Hilaire Belloc

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. — Hilaire Belloc

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth. — Hilaire Belloc

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. — Hilaire Belloc

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse. — Hilaire Belloc

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. — Hilaire Belloc

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers. — Hilaire Belloc

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. — Hilaire Belloc

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about. — Hilaire Belloc

The sea drives truth into a man like salt. — Hilaire Belloc

What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in... — Hilaire Belloc

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein. — Hilaire Belloc

A strong Protectionist, believes
In everything but Heaven.
For entertainment, dines, receives,
Unmarried, 57. — Hilaire Belloc

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. — Hilaire Belloc

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There's always laughter and good red wine.
At least I've always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino! — Hilaire Belloc

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied. — Hilaire Belloc

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. — Hilaire Belloc

You are my cat, and I am your human. — Hilaire Belloc