30 Top Hilaire Belloc Quotes To Live By
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
From quiet homes and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.
For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.
A strong Protectionist, believes In everything but Heaven. For entertainment, dines, receives, Unmarried, 57.
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.
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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.
The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.
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.
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.
… that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
What is needed is a form of tax which not only spares the small man at the expense of his wealthier rival, but actually subsidizes the small man where subsidy is necessary.
