Hilaire Belloc

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

— Hilaire Belloc

You are my cat, and I am your human.

— Hilaire Belloc

Remote and ineffectual don.

— Hilaire Belloc

The grace of God is courtesy.

— Hilaire Belloc

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.”

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it. I am broken and bored, Is there any reward? Reassure me, Good Lord,…

— Hilaire Belloc

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go…

— Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the…

— Hilaire Belloc

Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your…

— Hilaire Belloc

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary…

— Hilaire Belloc

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a…

— Hilaire Belloc

The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor…

— Hilaire Belloc

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all,…

— Hilaire Belloc

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some…

— Hilaire Belloc

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is…

— Hilaire Belloc

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold,…

— Hilaire Belloc

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible,…

— Hilaire Belloc

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body…

— Hilaire Belloc

When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more…

— Hilaire Belloc

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass…

— Hilaire Belloc

Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the…

— Hilaire Belloc

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more…

— Hilaire Belloc

One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness…

— Hilaire Belloc

Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal…

— Hilaire Belloc

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism…

— Hilaire Belloc

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…

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc