"How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis……" — Hilaire Belloc
"How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!"
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84 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc has 84 quotes on this site.
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we…
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter…
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a…
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last…
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Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you…
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the…
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More Creeps Quotes
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
— Edmund Burke
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I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell…
— Jon Stewart
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her.…
— Oscar Wilde
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with…
— Tennessee Williams
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[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us…
— Martin Luther
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
— Homer
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live…
— Emily Carr
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