Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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• I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we…
• 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.
• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
• 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…
• I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
• Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
• An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
• Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
• Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
• Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
• Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
• Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
• It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'…
• Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for…
• Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination…
• Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others…
• When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.
• The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
• 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.…

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