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Hilaire Joseph Pierre Belloc – pisarz angielski pochodzenia francuskiego, przedstawiciel nurtu katolickiego w literaturze angielskiej. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Lipiec 1870 – 16. Lipiec 1953   •   Natępne imiona Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, هیلیر بلاک
Hilaire Belloc Fotografia
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Hilaire Belloc słynne cytaty

„Trzaskanie Drzwiami przez Małe Dziewczynki
Liczy się między Najgorsze Uczynki.
Kultywowała ów Grzech bez ustanku
Córka pewnego Właściciela Banku,
Rebeka von und zu Schlaffenschluss-Schnorrt,
Dla której był to Ulubiony Sport.”

Źródło: Historia Rebeki, która trzaskała drzwiami dla zabawy, aż spotkał ją wcale nie zabawny koniec, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak

Hilaire Belloc: Cytaty po angielsku

“[M]an knows his own nature, and that which he pursues must surely be his satisfaction? Judging by which measure I determine that the best thing in the world is flying at full speed from pursuit, and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head grows dizzy, and at last we all fall down and that thing (whatever it is) which pursues us catches us up and eats our carcasses. This way of managing our lives, I think, must be the best thing in the world—for nearly all men choose to live thus.”

The "thing" which pursues us, we subsequently learn, is either "a Money-Devil" or "some appetite or lust" and "the advice is given to all in youth that they must make up their minds which of the two sorts of exercise they would choose, and the first [i.e. pursuit by a Money-Devil] is commonly praised and thought worthy; the second blamed." (p. 32)
Źródło: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), pp. 31–2

“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”

XIII. A Guide to Boring
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)

“That I grow sour, who only lack delight;
That I descend to sneer, who only grieve:
That from my depth I should contemn your height;
That with my blame my mockery you receive;
Huntress and splendour of the woodland night,
Diana of this world, do not believe.”

"Sonnet: Do not believe when lovely lips report"
To Lady Diana Cooper. See her memoir, The Light of Common Day (Boston: Houghton, 1959), pp. 27–28
Sonnets and Verse (1938)

“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.”

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

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