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Hilaire Joseph Pierre Belloc war ein britischer Schriftsteller französischer Herkunft.

✵ 27. Juli 1870 – 16. Juli 1953   •   Andere Namen Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, هیلیر بلاک
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“Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!”

"The Microbe"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

“Oh, my friends, be warned by me,
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, and Tea
Are all the Human Frame requires.”

Hilaire Belloc buch Cautionary Tales for Children

"Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

“[P]rofessional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.”

Quelle: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), p. 116

“[M]others of large families (who claim to common sense)
Will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.”

Hilaire Belloc buch The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

"The Tiger"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)

“[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse”

Hilaire Belloc buch Cautionary Tales for Children

"Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)

“Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.”

IV. On Making an Omelette
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)

“I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.”

Hilaire Belloc buch The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

"The Hippopotamus"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)

“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”

Letter to G.K. Chesterton (12 December 1917), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 355

“Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.”

Quelle: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument

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