Quotes About Belloc

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

When Belloc said that the Protestant Reformation was the shipwreck of Christendom, he was simply stating a historical fact, but it was controversial because history is political.

Mindful of this difficulty, Hilaire Belloc predicted the "necessary" conflict between the civil state and the Catholic Church in America. He said in so many words, of course, "the Catholic Church in America." He was not referring to the star-spangled "American Catholic Church" which is after all only a Modernist sect of long standing, with a large growing membership. No conflict with Pilate should arise there.

the absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.

The chief defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of string.