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Hilaire Belloc Quotes


An Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902.
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G. K. Chesterton. 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 also widely regarded as a humane and sympathetic man.

Here are some famous quotes by Hilaire Belloc. 

Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.

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We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.

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A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.

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There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.

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When I am dead I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read.'

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable so with autobiography.

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The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.

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Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'

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We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond and on these faces there are no smiles.