Hilaire Belloc Quotes on Humor
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What! Would you slap the Porcupine? Unhappy child - desist! Alas! That any friend of mine Should turn Tupto-philist.
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Here richly, with ridiculous display, 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.
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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Mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.
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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.