Quote

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

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
Upon
Fell
Good
Curse
Life
Innocent
Judgment
Merriment
Lived
Assessment
Mankind
Informed
Full
Fairly
Happy
Statistics

More quotes by Hilaire Belloc

Image
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
Image
[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
Hilaire Belloc
Image
How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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
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
I forget the name of the place I forget the name of the girl but the wine was Chambertin.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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
Image
We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.
Hilaire Belloc
Image
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
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