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
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 abuse world
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
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.
heart grace holiness
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
heart lied said
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
men healthy conflict
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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.
strong class body
The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.
labels politics principles
The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.