Hilaire Belloc Quotes - Page 6

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• If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Food, Cooking, Noble

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• Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Biographies, Admirable, Autobiography

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• I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Heart, Lied, Said

  Verses (1910) "The False Heart"

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• Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Doubt, Should

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• Money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Giving, Silly Love, Funny Valentine

  'Fatigued' (1923)

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• Remote and ineffectual don.

  Hilaire Belloc

  College, University

  'Lines to a Don' (1910)

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• There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Art, Names, Cooking

  Hilaire Belloc (1955). “One thing and another”

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• Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Party, Passion, Political Opinions

  Hilaire Belloc (2008). “The Party System”, p.37, IHS Press

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• The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
  Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Bridges, Democracy, Reign

  'On a Great Election' (1923)

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• The Rich arrived in pairs
  And also in Rolls Royces;
  They talked of their affairs
  In loud and strident voices...
  
  The Poor arrived in Fords,
  Whose features they resembled;
  They laughed to see so many Lords
  And Ladies all assembled.
  
  The People in Between
  Looked underdone and harassed,
  And our of place and mean,
  And Horribly embarrassed.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Mean, Voice, People

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• 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

  Children, Book, Cutting

  A Bad Child's Book of Beasts dedication (1896)

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• The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Credit, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.34, IHS Press

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• 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.

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  Engineering, Iron, Paris

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• It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Sometimes, Interest

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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• I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Animal, Ems, Use

  'A Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896) 'The Hippopotamus'.

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• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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• 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

  Science, Scientist, Sanguine

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• There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Oxford, Meditation

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• Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Politics, Economy, Century

  Hilaire Belloc (1931). “Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556”

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