How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I am a sundial, and I make a botch Of what is done much better by a watch. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
![“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. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza…” quote by Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/913/hilaire-belloc-2294_book_for-no-one-in-our-long-decline-so-dusty_140002.jpg)
