Quotes from Hilaire Belloc
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.
- Hilaire Belloc
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
- Hilaire Belloc
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
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
- Hilaire Belloc
The grace of God is courtesy.
- Hilaire Belloc
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.
- Hilaire Belloc
Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.
- Hilaire Belloc
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
- Hilaire Belloc
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
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
- Hilaire Belloc
The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.
- Hilaire Belloc
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
- Hilaire Belloc