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Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!


Hilaire Belloc

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HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear o...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the ...
HILAIRE BELLOC For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mi...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said,
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part o...
HILAIRE BELLOC Remote and ineffectual don.
HILAIRE BELLOC Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
HILAIRE BELLOC Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could po...
HILAIRE BELLOC The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
HILAIRE BELLOC When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside w...
HILAIRE BELLOC It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wande...
HILAIRE BELLOC To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for ...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hi...
HILAIRE BELLOC Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who from h...
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
HILAIRE BELLOC Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
HILAIRE BELLOC Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictu...
HILAIRE BELLOC Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is of...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
HILAIRE BELLOC All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures ou...
HILAIRE BELLOC Money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance,...
HILAIRE BELLOC Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
HILAIRE BELLOC I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
HILAIRE BELLOC Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the we...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat...
HILAIRE BELLOC An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefor...
HILAIRE BELLOC The grace of God is courtesy.
HILAIRE BELLOC Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slave...
HILAIRE BELLOC All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud an...
HILAIRE BELLOC We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
HILAIRE BELLOC Cautionary Verses for Children
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
HILAIRE BELLOC And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
HILAIRE BELLOC Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took the...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires
HILAIRE BELLOC The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throa...
HILAIRE BELLOC I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear o...
HILAIRE BELLOC Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
HILAIRE BELLOC All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to c...
HILAIRE BELLOC Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could po...
HILAIRE BELLOC If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the ...
ANIL AGARWAL كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
EDWARD FITZGERALD We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is...
THEODORE ZELDIN لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. ...
WARREN EYSTER Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we
For such as we are made of, such we be
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Such as she is, who died to-day, Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
ALEXANDER POPE About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.
FRANK IERO When they tore that (gas station) down about six years ago, it affected my breathing for weeks.
HAROLD WILSON Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me any...
VOLTAIRE If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!...
EDWARD FITZGERALD The United Nations and the African Union should address the human cost of allowing impunity to flour...
PETER TAKIRAMBUDDE I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
PETER BENCHLEY If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, ...
REV. AL SHARPTON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,-- Plays such fantastic tricks before hi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not de...
SANTOSH AVVANNAVAR And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves ...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON How can God allow such abominations to flourish unchecked in this world?
The answer came in a q...
LISA WINGATE Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious t...
SIMON CALLOW She was recorded ahead of the ceremony. Such a young child, it's difficult to send her (live) in suc...
GIUSEPPE GATTINO I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutel...
ANGELINA JOLIE Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
PAUL C. NAGEL Our perspective is that competition should be allowed to flourish in a free market, and the issue of...
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