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“The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.”

Hilaire Belloc

Quoted by: Philip Jenkins, God&#x27;s Continent / Christianity, Islam And Europe&#x27;s Religious Crisis https://books.google.nl/books?id=IilDVBzWiGAC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=%22God%27s+Continent+/+Christianity,+Islam+And+Europe%27s+Religious+Crisis%22&amp;hl=nl&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiTy-arla3MAhVCQBoKHWTlAToQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22And%20for%20my%20part%20I%20cannot%20but%20believe%22&amp;f=false, 2007, p.3 <br class="br">Source: The Great Heresies (1938), Chapter III

“By thee do seers the inward light discern;
By thee the statue lives, the Gods return.”

Hilaire Belloc

Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)

“The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,
With an indolent expression and an undulating throat
Like an unsuccessful literary man.”

Hilaire Belloc

"The Llama"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)

“It is not insignificant that the Church, in the rare places and times when she had power to do so, did not compel the mind. During all that intense intellectual life of the thirteenth century instruction was by choice: endowed—so that the poorest could reach the highest inspiration, but at the choice of the individual or family will, to be taken or left.”

Hilaire Belloc

Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. IV The Main Opposition (iii) The "Modern" Mind

“Logically the Neo-Pagan should get rid of the institution of marriage altogether; but the very nature of human society, which is built up of cells each of which is a family, and the very nature of human generation, forbid such an extreme. Children must be brought up and acknowledged and sheltered, and the very nature of human affection, whereby there is the bond of affection between the parent and the child, and the child is not of one parent but of both, will compel the Neo-Pagan to modify what might be his logical conclusion of free love and support some simulacrum of the institution of marriage.”

Hilaire Belloc

Source: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. V New Arrivals

“There is nothing at all that remains: nor any house; nor any castle, however strong; nor any love, however tender and sound; nor any comradeship among men, however hardy. Nothing remains but the things of which I will not speak, because we have spoken enough of them already during these four days. But I who am old will give you advice, which is this—to consider chiefly from now onwards those permanent things which are, as it were, the shores of this age and the harbours of our glittering and pleasant but dangerous and wholly changeful sea.”

Hilaire Belloc

By this, we are then told, "he meant Death." (p. 158)
Source: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), pp. 157–8

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

Hilaire Belloc

Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. xi

“Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.”

Hilaire Belloc

"The Pacifist"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”

Hilaire Belloc

"On Song", On Everything (1909)

“The world is full of double beds
And most delightful maidenheads,
Which being so, there’s no excuse
For sodomy or self-abuse.”

Hilaire Belloc

"The world is full of double beds"

“I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied:
"Right as a Ribstone Pippin!"”

Hilaire Belloc

But it lied.
"The False Heart"
Verses (1910)