Quotes from Hilaire Belloc

When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more at such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

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...

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

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.

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.

A Catholic culture does not mean or imply universality. A nation or a whole civilization is of the Catholic culture not when it is entirely composed of strong believers minutely practicing their religion, nor even whit it boasts a majority of such, but when it presents a determining number of units-family institutions, individuals, inspired by and tenacious of the Catholic spirit.

He served his god so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face in hell.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.