(27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953 / La Celle-Saint-Cloud)

poet Hilaire Belloc
#76 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''Like many of the Upper Class He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "About John," New Cautionary Tales (1930).
    116 person liked.
    		24 person did not like.
  • ''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 (1870-1953), British author. "Dedicatory Ode," Verses (1910).
    136 person liked.
    		20 person did not like.
  • ''The Politician's corpse was laid away.
    While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
    I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Epitaph on the Politician Himself (l. 2-4). . . Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.
    54 person liked.
    		13 person did not like.
  • ''Money gives me pleasure all the time.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Fatigue (l. 2). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
    35 person liked.
    		15 person did not like.
  • ''I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "Fatigued," Sonnets and Verse (1923).
    9 person liked.
    		5 person did not like.
  • ''Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers
    And never a ploughman under the Sun.
    Never a ploughman. Never a one.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Ha'nacker Mill (l. 13-15). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
    8 person liked.
    		5 person did not like.
  • ''The Chief Defect of Henry King
    Was chewing little bits of String.
    At last he swallowed some which tied
    Itself in ugly Knots inside.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut Off in Dreadful Agonies (l. 1-4). . . Norton Book of Light Verse, The. Russell Baker, ed. (1986) W. W. Norton & Company.
    16 person liked.
    		4 person did not like.
  • ''He slipped his hand and ran away!
    He hadn't gone a yard when—Bang!
    With open jaws, a lion sprang,
    And hungrily began to eat
    The boy: beginning at his feet.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion (l. 18-22). . . Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.
    10 person liked.
    		6 person did not like.
  • ''always keep a-hold of Nurse
    For fear of finding something worse.''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion (l. 53-54). . . Oxford Book of Children's Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1973) Oxford University Press.
    17 person liked.
    		3 person did not like.
  • ''Don different from those regal Dons!
    With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
    Who shout and bang and roar and brawl
    The Absolute across the hall,''
    Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Lines to a Don (l. 21-24). . . Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.
    9 person liked.
    		4 person did not like.

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Henry King

The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame
Were called at once; but when they came
They answered, as they took their Fees,
"There is no Cure for this Disease.

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