Quote

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Hilaire Belloc

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
Historian
Journalist
Poet
Politician
Writer
La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
Tea
Breakfast
Lunch
Requires
Dinner
Friends
Human
Warned
Humans
Frame

More quotes by Hilaire Belloc

Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
Hilaire Belloc
Image
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery there is no third course.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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
Image
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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.'
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
Hilaire Belloc
Image
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
Hilaire Belloc