All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Hilaire Belloc
And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.
Hilaire Belloc
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.
Hilaire Belloc
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
Hilaire Belloc
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
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 love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire Belloc
I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
Hilaire Belloc
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
Hilaire Belloc
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Hilaire Belloc
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc
Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
Hilaire Belloc
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
Hilaire Belloc
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign: (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
Hilaire Belloc
The grace of God is courtesy.
Hilaire Belloc
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Hilaire Belloc
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
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 the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
Hilaire Belloc
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1870-07-27
Year of Death:
1953
Nationality:
English |
