Quotes from belloc hilaire ii

If antiquity be the test of nobility, as many affirm and none deny ... then cheese is a very noble thing.

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.

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

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.

Romance it is undoubtedly who whispers to every man that life is not a blind and aimless business, not all a hopeless waste and confusion; and that his existence is a pageant (appreciatively observed by divine spectators), and that he is strong and excellent and wise: and to romance he listens, willing and thrice willing to be cheated by the honeyed fiction.

In words lie the seeds of all dissension, and love at its most profound is silent.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their Fees, "There is no Cure for this Disease."

Nor have I met any man in my life, arguing for what should be among men, but took for granted as he argued that the doctrine he consciously or unconsciously accepted was or should be a similar foundation for all mankind. Hence battle.

Your life is like a little winter's day Whose sad sun rises late to set too soon; You have just come--why will you go away, Making an evening of what should be noon.

Professional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.

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

The Barbarian hopes -- and that is the very mark of him -- that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort but he will not be at pains to replace such goods nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being.

The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable, so with autobiography.