It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
Hilaire BellocDear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
Hilaire BellocI forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.
Hilaire BellocIs there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire BellocWhen you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
Hilaire BellocThe very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.
Hilaire Belloc