Hilaire Belloc

“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.”

“Child! do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out!”

“He does not die that can bequeath some influence to the land he knows.”

“The grace of God is in courtesy.”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”

“Every major question in history is a religious question.”

“And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.”

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

“There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”

“Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.”

“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”

“The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.”

“To every man a good dinner, a good bottle of wine, a good bed, and a good wife.”

“The great affair is to move.”

“Her face was like the king's command When all the swords are drawn.”

“Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? Do you remember an Inn?”

“Balliol made me, Balliol fed me, whatever I had she gave me again; and store of heads both great and small, Balliol gave me, Balliol gave me all.”

“I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”