Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Bellocwas an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 July 1870
Hilaire Belloc quotes about
biographies admirable autobiography
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
cat humans
You are my cat, and I am your human.
years grandparent giving
Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
army fighting bills
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
religious common language
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
catholic church remember
When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.
engineering iron paris
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.
disease physicians fame
Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
writing empty worst
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
self denial essentials
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
humorous doubt scientist
But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.
giving silly-love funny-valentine
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
writing way language
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
doe credit rivals
The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.