210 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

If there is one portion of Europe which was made by the sea more than another, Portugal is that slice, that portion, that belt. Portugal was made by the atlantic.

A smell of burning fills the startled air / The electrician is no longer there!

Be kind and tender to the Frog and do not call him names.

The Frog is justly sensitive to epithets like these. No animal will more repay a treatment kind and fair. At least so lonely people say who keep a frog (and, by the way,they are extremely rare).