A collection of quotes and thoughts by Hilaire Belloc on poetry, hope, books, force, education, friends, writing, humor, communism, God, joy and travel.
Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Belloc was an Anglo-French author, poet, political activist, soldier and satirist. Belloc arrived in England as a child and after completing his school education, he served in the military. Later on, he studied history at Balliol College at Oxford University and Belloc claimed that his time at Balliol had a profound effect on him. Belloc had also been the President of the Oxford Union, the famed debating society during his days at the university and after he became a citizen of Britain, he went into politics. He was a member of the Liberal Party and went on to serve as the representative of Salford South during his time as a Member of Parliament. On the other hand he was a prolific writer of his era, who revelled in poetry, essays and travel writing pieces. Some of his well-known works as a writer include ‘The Path to Rome’, ‘The Four Men: a Farrago’, ‘The Servile State’ and his most successful work ‘Cautionary Tales for Children’ among others. Belloc was a remarkably multi-faceted man. We bring to you a treasure trove of quotes that have been excerpted from his poems, books, speeches and writings. Read on to explore a compilation of some of the best known quotes by Hilaire Belloc, covering various aspects of life. The quotes would surely leave a lasting impression on your mind and leave you inspired.
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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.
If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
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.
Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.
Hilaire Belloc
Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
Hilaire Belloc
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.
When they married and gave in marriage
They danced at the County Ball
And some of them kept a carriage
And the flood destroyed them all.
Hilaire Belloc
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.
What is needed is a form of tax which not only spares the small man at the expense of his wealthier rival, but actually subsidizes the small man where subsidy is necessary.
Hilaire Belloc
… that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.
 thought it right. )
Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne. )
