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
english-poet goes heart
I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
accursed broke democracy goes power privilege stands women
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).
facts fits happily indeed largely somewhat thereafter
He is largely right in his conclusions, somewhat over-selective in his facts: most of what you will read thereafter you will find happily fits into his analysis, which is as it should be, because, as I said, he is indeed largely right.
economic destroying states
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
priests wells associates
I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.
catholic church divinity
The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
church defeated
The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
temptation devil whim
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.
lunch tea breakfast
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
population dull suggestions
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.
ridiculous politician acquaintance
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
nurse findings
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
tests lineage cheese
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
rising politics biting
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."