Hilaire Belloc

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#friendship

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#life

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#force #gun #humor #might_makes_right #technology

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#men

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#awful #between #cold #disappears #friendship

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#conflict #healthy #instinct #least

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#i #love #me #money #more

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#falls #life #loss #possession #shadow

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#distraction #fulfillment #wander

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#had #i #known #latin #my soul