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“The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.”

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Remark (undated) to William Temple, quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 383

“[M]an knows his own nature, and that which he pursues must surely be his satisfaction? Judging by which measure I determine that the best thing in the world is flying at full speed from pursuit, and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head grows dizzy, and at last we all fall down and that thing (whatever it is) which pursues us catches us up and eats our carcasses. This way of managing our lives, I think, must be the best thing in the world—for nearly all men choose to live thus.”

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The "thing" which pursues us, we subsequently learn, is either "a Money-Devil" or "some appetite or lust" and "the advice is given to all in youth that they must make up their minds which of the two sorts of exercise they would choose, and the first [i.e. pursuit by a Money-Devil] is commonly praised and thought worthy; the second blamed." (p. 32)
Quelle: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), pp. 31–2

“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”

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XIII. A Guide to Boring
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)

“It is this worth, that is, this ability to get other wealth in exchange, which constitutes true Economic Wealth.”

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Quelle: Economics for Helen (1924), Ch. 1 : What is Wealth?

“I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.”

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Quelle: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 160

“In soft deluding lies let fools delight.
A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.”

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"On a Sundial"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“That I grow sour, who only lack delight;
That I descend to sneer, who only grieve:
That from my depth I should contemn your height;
That with my blame my mockery you receive;
Huntress and splendour of the woodland night,
Diana of this world, do not believe.”

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"Sonnet: Do not believe when lovely lips report"
To Lady Diana Cooper. See her memoir, The Light of Common Day (Boston: Houghton, 1959), pp. 27–28
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.”

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"Fatigued", Sonnets and Verse (1923)

“[N]othing is worthwhile on this unhappy earth except the fulfilment of a man's desire.”

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Quelle: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 4

“Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.”

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"Habitations"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“I recognised that I was (and I confessed) in that attitude of the mind wherein men admit mortality; something had already passed from me—I mean that fresh and vigorous morning of the eyes wherein the beauty of this land had been reflected as in a tiny mirror of burnished silver. Youth was gone out apart; it was loved and regretted, and therefore no longer possessed.”

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Quelle: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 159

“Death […] people nowadays seem to regard as something odd, whereas it is well known to be the commonest thing in the world.”

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Quelle: The Path to Rome (1902), p. 258

“It was my shame, and now it is my boast,
That I have loved you rather more than most.”

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"Time Cures All"

“Then let us love one another and laugh. Time passes, and we shall soon laugh no longer—and meanwhile common living is a burden, and earnest men are in siege upon us all around. Let us suffer absurdities, for this is only to suffer one another.”

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Quelle: The Path to Rome (1902), p. xv

“The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.”

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

“Torture will give a dozen pence or more
To keep a drab from bawling at his door.
The public taste is quite a different thing—
Torture is positively paid to sing.”

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"On Torture: A Public Singer"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“You shall receive me when the clouds are high
With evening and the sheep attain the fold.
This is the faith that I have held and hold,
And this is that in which I mean to die.”

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"Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa"
Hilaire Belloc (1925)

“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.”

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The Silence of the Sea (1940)

“I have noticed that this kind of fanatic, like every other kind, is in two species: the species which too clearly thinks out its own insane theory, and the species which remains perfectly muddle-headed.”

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Quelle: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), p. 83

“Then he added, as men will who are of infinite imagination and crammed with desires, 'My wants are few.”

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Quelle: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 78

“The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.”

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Quoted by: Philip Jenkins, God's Continent / Christianity, Islam And Europe's Religious Crisis https://books.google.nl/books?id=IilDVBzWiGAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22God%27s+Continent+/+Christianity,+Islam+And+Europe%27s+Religious+Crisis%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTy-arla3MAhVCQBoKHWTlAToQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22And%20for%20my%20part%20I%20cannot%20but%20believe%22&f=false, 2007, p.3 <br class="br">Quelle: The Great Heresies (1938), Chapter III

“By thee do seers the inward light discern;
By thee the statue lives, the Gods return.”

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Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)

“The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,
With an indolent expression and an undulating throat
Like an unsuccessful literary man.”

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

“It is not insignificant that the Church, in the rare places and times when she had power to do so, did not compel the mind. During all that intense intellectual life of the thirteenth century instruction was by choice: endowed—so that the poorest could reach the highest inspiration, but at the choice of the individual or family will, to be taken or left.”

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Quelle: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. IV The Main Opposition (iii) The "Modern" Mind