![]() Oh, blessed quality of books, that makes them a refuge from living! For in a book everything can be made to fit in, all tedium can be skipped over, and the intense moments can be made timeless and eternal. But now I come to think of it, it cannot seem as dull, for I had to walk that wretched thirty miles or so all the day long, whereas you have not even to read it for I am not going to say anything more about it, but lead you straight to the end. I sincerely hope, trust, and pray that this part of my journey will not seem as dull to you as it did to me at the time, or as it does to me now while I write of it.Let us suffer absurdities, for this is only to suffer one another. 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. Then let us love one another and laugh.Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!.There are more mountains than molehills …' '… and as to what may be in this book, do not feel timid nor hesitate to enter.The Path to Rome (1902) Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! London: George Allen & Unwin, 1902 With an indolent expression and an undulating throat The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,.Will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense. others of large families (who claim to common sense).That I have loved you rather more than most. It was my shame, and now it is my boast,.There’s always laughter and good red wine. As quoted in Traveling for Her: An Inspirational Guide (2008) by Amber Israelsen, p.Variant: I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled the difference between the two is this - we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p.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. ![]() Remark (undated) to William Temple, quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p.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.How did the party go in Portman Square?.I'm tired of Love I'm still more tired of Rhyme.īut money gives me pleasure all the time.Chesterton (12 December 1917), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."On Tea", On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908).Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.On polling day, 13 January 1906, Belloc, standing as a Liberal, overturned a Conservative majority to win by 852 votes, winning again four years later, though by an even slimmer margin. Response to his Tory opponent's slogan, "Don't vote for a Frenchman and a Catholic".Speech to voters of South Salford (1906), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. ![]() ![]() If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Quotes 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.
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