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Hilaire Belloc Quotes

You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, and this is that in which I mean to die Picture Quote #1

A lovely river, all alone, she lingers in the hills and holds a hundred little towns of stone, forgotten in the western wolds Picture Quote #1

Torture will give a dozen pence or more to keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing - torture is positively paid to sing Picture Quote #1

The world is full of double beds and most delightful maidenheads, which being so, there's no excuse for sodomy or self abuse Picture Quote #1

The microbe is so very small you cannot make him out at all, but many sanguine people hope to see him through a microscope Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, that breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, are all human frame requires Picture Quote #1

To walk because it is good for you warps the soul, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language Picture Quote #1

Child! Do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death Picture Quote #1

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun Picture Quote #1

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough only because we do not know enough when science has discovered something more we shall be happier than we were before Picture Quote #1

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds Picture Quote #1

The waterbeetle here shall teach a sermon far beyond your reach; he flabbergasts the human race by gliding on the water's face with ease, celerity, and grace; but if he ever stopped to think of how he did it, he would sink Picture Quote #1

When the ephemeral vision's lure is past all, all, must face their passion at the last Picture Quote #1

By thee do seers the inward light discern; By thee the statue lives, the Gods return Picture Quote #1

I shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use leaden ones his hide is sure to flatten 'em Picture Quote #1

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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in night Picture Quote #1

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them Picture Quote #1

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it Picture Quote #1

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read Picture Quote #1

He therefore was at strenuous pains to atrophy his puny brains and registered success in this beyond the dreams of avarice till when he had at last become blind, paralytic, deaf and dumb insensible and cretinous he was admitted one of us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, and this is that in which I mean to die (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) A lovely river, all alone, she lingers in the hills and holds a hundred little towns of stone, forgotten in the western wolds (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) Torture will give a dozen pence or more to keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing - torture is positively paid to sing (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) The world is full of double beds and most delightful maidenheads, which being so, there's no excuse for sodomy or self abuse (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) The microbe is so very small you cannot make him out at all, but many sanguine people hope to see him through a microscope (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) 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 (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) 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 (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) Oh, my friends, be warned by me, that breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, are all human frame requires (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) To walk because it is good for you warps the soul, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) 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 Quotes) Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) Child! Do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) 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 Quotes) Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) 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 (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough only because we do not know enough when science has discovered something more we shall be happier than we were before (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) The waterbeetle here shall teach a sermon far beyond your reach; he flabbergasts the human race by gliding on the water's face with ease, celerity, and grace; but if he ever stopped to think of how he did it, he would sink (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) When the ephemeral vision's lure is past all, all, must face their passion at the last (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) By thee do seers the inward light discern; By thee the statue lives, the Gods return (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) I shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use leaden ones his hide is sure to flatten 'em (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in night (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) He therefore was at strenuous pains to atrophy his puny brains and registered success in this beyond the dreams of avarice till when he had at last become blind, paralytic, deaf and dumb insensible and cretinous he was admitted one of us (Hilaire Belloc Quotes) 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 (Hilaire Belloc Quotes)

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