Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

About Hilaire Belloc:

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on his works, and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902, also retaining his French citizenship.
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An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence "by the sword" (as the metaphor goes), that is, by the invasion of neighboring countries with consequent further massacres and the extension of the area of despo...

Hilaire Belloc

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

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In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of the owners, put a term to the arrangement.

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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

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For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

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These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

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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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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

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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.

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The grace of God is courtesy.

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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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 travel for fulfillment.

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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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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.

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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

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Author Bio

  • NameHilaire Belloc
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornJuly 27, 1870
  • DiedJuly 16, 1953
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Politician