Best Hilaire Belloc Quotes
- Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! All
- It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… Able
- Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. Content
- Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. Any
- When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. Drown
- But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer… Advance
- Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Death
- It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie… All
- The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance,… Annoyance
- Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard… Attempted
- The grace of God is courtesy. Courtesy
- Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. All
- How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast! Creeps
- I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down… Account
- For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned. Answered
- Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. All
- It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation Damnably
- Remote and ineffectual don. College
- Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but… All
- And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me. Boy
- I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Book
- Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment. Assessment
- I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. Animal
- Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which… Abandonment
- The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. Choice
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