Hilaire Belloc Quotations | Page 2

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

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.

[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

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.'

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.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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.

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

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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