Books Quote by Hilaire Belloc Download Open image “When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” — Hilaire Belloc ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Said Sins Scarlet Scarlet Books Sins Sins Scarlet
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.” — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. — Isaiah Copy Share Image
“I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The plain and simple fact was everyone sinned. Either they were good at hiding their sins, or they weren't. I fell in the latter… — Tiffany King Copy Share Image
“He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by… — Gloria Coleman Copy Share Image
“My father told us stories about our ancestors and about the city and how we should act. He told us that the four sins… — Ida Pruitt Copy Share Image
“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.” — Morley Callaghan 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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