But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

Hilaire Belloc

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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

soul latin tea

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

Hilaire Belloc

wisdom giving men

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

Hilaire Belloc

girl wine food

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

Hilaire Belloc

life death fall

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Hilaire Belloc

empty worst writing

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Hilaire Belloc

cooking food remember

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Hilaire Belloc

language writing way

You are my cat, and I am your human.

Hilaire Belloc

cat humans

I am a sundial, and I make a botch

Hilaire Belloc

time watches funny

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc

love friendship life

I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

Hilaire Belloc

rosary catholic thank-god

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Hilaire Belloc

noble cooking food

[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

Hilaire Belloc

denial essentials self

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

Hilaire Belloc

grace courage heart

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

Hilaire Belloc

wine food men

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

Hilaire Belloc

admirable autobiography biographies

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Hilaire Belloc

shadow past fall

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

Hilaire Belloc

rely-upon names order

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Hilaire Belloc

should doubt

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Hilaire Belloc

lied said heart