Hilaire Belloc Quotes
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
Belloc, Hilaire. Cautionary Tales for Children. Eveleigh Nash, 1907, p. 55.
Reacting negatively to a relief plan that would be slow in getting started but that would be "very successful in the long run:"
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.