“Le contrôle de la production des richesses est le contrôle de la vie humaine elle-même.”
[…], to control the production of wealth is to control human life itself.
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Remark (undated) to William Temple, quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 383
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)
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), pp. 31–2
“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”
XIII. A Guide to Boring
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)
Source: Economics for Helen (1924), Ch. 1 : What is Wealth?
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 160
“In soft deluding lies let fools delight.
A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.”
"On a Sundial"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
"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.”
"Fatigued", Sonnets and Verse (1923)
“[N]othing is worthwhile on this unhappy earth except the fulfilment of a man's desire.”
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 4
“Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.”
"Habitations"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 159
Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. xv
"The Microbe"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
"On Torture: A Public Singer"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
"Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa"
Hilaire Belloc (1925)
“All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.”
The Silence of the Sea (1940)
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 78
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">Source: The Great Heresies (1938), Chapter III
“By thee do seers the inward light discern;
By thee the statue lives, the Gods return.”
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)
"The Llama"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. IV The Main Opposition (iii) The "Modern" Mind
Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. V New Arrivals
By this, we are then told, "he meant Death." (p. 158)
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), pp. 157–8
“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”
Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. xi
“Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.”
"The Pacifist"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”
"On Song", On Everything (1909)
