5 Hilaire Belloc Quotes on Humor

Hilaire Belloc quotes on humor

2. What! Would you slap the Porcupine? Unhappy child - desist! Alas! That any friend of mine Should turn Tupto-philist.

8. 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.

39. I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

45. Mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and expense.

50. The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.