Best Quotes by Hilaire Belloc (Top 10)

  1. When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
  2. Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
  3. I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
  4. The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
  5. The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
  6. It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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