--- title: "13 Ifs Quotes By Hilaire Belloc" description: "13 Ifs quotes by Hilaire Belloc. Plus more from Hilaire Belloc and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/hilaire-belloc-2294_animal_i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-ma_2722330.png" --- > [I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-made-of-platinum-because-if-i/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/hilaire-belloc-2294_animal_i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-ma_2722330.png) > [How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/how-on-earth-could-that-be-done-if-you-try-to-laugh-and-say-no-at-the/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a6/hilaire-belloc-2294_comedy_how-on-earth-could-that-be-done-if-you-t_563889.png) > [But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/but-if-i-be-asked-what-sign-we-may-look-for-to-show-that-the-advance/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d19/hilaire-belloc-2294_answers_but-if-i-be-asked-what-sign-we-may-look_1764789.png) > [If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/if-you-can-describe-clearly-without-a-diagram-the-proper-way-of/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f5/hilaire-belloc-2294_diagrams_if-you-can-describe-clearly-without-a-di_458461.png) > [If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/if-antiquity-be-the-only-test-of-nobility-then-cheese-is-a-very-noble/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccd/hilaire-belloc-2294_antiquity_if-antiquity-be-the-only-test-of-nobilit_2471843.png) > [If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/if-any-man-gives-you-a-wine-you-can-t-bear-don-t-say-it-is-beastly/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/hilaire-belloc-2294_bears_if-any-man-gives-you-a-wine-you-can-t-be_1516140.png) > [I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/i-am-a-catholic-as-far-as-possible-i-go-to-mass-every-day-this-is-a/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12e/hilaire-belloc-2294_accounts_i-am-a-catholic-as-far-as-possible-i-go_1055775.png) > [But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/but-if-we-are-to-retain-freedom-then-we-can-only-do-so-by-keeping-the/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/hilaire-belloc-2294_citizens_but-if-we-are-to-retain-freedom-then-we_3005036.png) > [Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/even-if-the-wealth-and-power-be-well-distributed-throughout-a/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed8/hilaire-belloc-2294_anxiety_even-if-the-wealth-and-power-be-well-dis_579513.png) > [Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/communism-worked-honestly-by-officials-devoid-of-human-frailties-and/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5a/hilaire-belloc-2294_advantage_communism-worked-honestly-by-officials-d_58921.png) > [Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/since-it-is-to-the-advantage-of-the-wage-payer-to-pay-as-little-as/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/hilaire-belloc-2294_advantage_since-it-is-to-the-advantage-of-the-wage_1538309.jpg) > [In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/in-the-same-way-the-eminence-attaching-to-the-mere-possession-of/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/hilaire-belloc-2294_always-complaining_in-the-same-way-the-eminence-attaching-t_2053201.png) > [Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/take-the-particular-trick-of-false-names-it-seems-to-us-particularly/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/159/hilaire-belloc-2294_associates_take-the-particular-trick-of-false-names_2137001.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Hilaire Belloc > [All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/all-men-have-an-instinct-for-conflict-at-least-all-healthy-men/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/kings-live-in-palaces-and-pigs-in-sties-and-youth-in-expectation/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/communism-worked-honestly-by-officials-devoid-of-human-frailties-and/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/i-put-my-pencil-upon-the-paper-doubtfully-and-drew-little-lines/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/had-there-been-any-existent-vital-and-energetic-institution-left-in/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/before-the-curse-of-statistics-fell-upon-mankind-we-lived-a-happy/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/of-old-when-folk-lay-sick-and-sorely-tried-the-doctors-gave-them/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/it-is-mind-which-determines-the-change-of-society-and-it-was-because/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/for-no-one-in-our-long-decline-so-dusty-spiteful-and-divided-had/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-smaller-man-approaching-our-modern-banking-system-which-controls/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/under-the-old-philosophy-which-had-governed-the-high-middle-ages/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/torture-will-give-a-dozen-pence-or-more-to-keep-a-drab-from-bawling/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/of-courtesy-it-is-much-less-than-courage-of-heart-or-holiness-yet-in/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-very-large-units-of-production-and-exchange-have-access-to-credit/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) > [The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-terror-in-which-english-capitalists-now-stand-of-organized/) [Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/hilaire-belloc/#itemlist", "name": "13 Ifs Quotes By Hilaire Belloc", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hilaire Belloc" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-made-of-platinum-because-if-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/hilaire-belloc-2294_animal_i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-ma_2722330.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/hilaire-belloc-2294_animal_i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-ma_2722330.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/hilaire-belloc-2294_animal_i-shoot-the-hippopotamus-with-bullets-ma_2722330.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to…” — Hilaire Belloc", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "How on earth could that be done? 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