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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
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
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
— 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
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
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
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all. — Hilaire Belloc
I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.
— Melissa St. Hilaire
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
— 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
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
The grace of God is courtesy.
— Hilaire Belloc
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
— 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
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
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
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
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
You are my cat, and I am your human.
— Hilaire Belloc