Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Bellocwas an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds, but...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 July 1870
real writing sailing
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing
writing empty worst
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
writing way language
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
book writing dull
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
writing army blow
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
real writing laughing
How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.
accursed broke democracy goes power privilege stands women
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke - and Democracy resumed her reign: (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne).
homes laughter love quiet wear worth
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.
cutting english-poet pictures pleasure refrain throw
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
doubt nobody sure
Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
lunch tea breakfast
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
eye men cells
Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the highest life of society through the dignity of man and through the multiplicity of his action, in which multiplicity is life. Through well-divided property alone can the units of society react upon the State. Through it alone can a public opinion flourish. Only where the bulk of the cells are healthy can the whole organism thrive.
affected child flourish
Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!
english-poet goes heart
I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'