Hilaire Belloc

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man…

— Hilaire Belloc

Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake…

— Hilaire Belloc

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

— Hilaire Belloc

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably…

— Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

— Hilaire Belloc

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the…

— Hilaire Belloc

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff…

— Hilaire Belloc

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of…

— Hilaire Belloc

But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular…

— Hilaire Belloc

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

— Hilaire Belloc

Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in…

— 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

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

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

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

— Hilaire Belloc

“To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True,…

— Hilaire Belloc

“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction,…

— 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

It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;…

— Hilaire Belloc

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank…

— Hilaire Belloc

Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom…

— Hilaire Belloc

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through…

— 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

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

— Hilaire Belloc