Hilaire Belloc Quotes

» When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

» The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

» All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

» Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

» It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

» When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

» I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

» Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

» We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

» 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.

» The grace of God is courtesy.

» Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

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

» Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

» When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

» The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

» It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

» Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

» Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

» Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

» Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

» An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

» Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

» Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

» Money gives me pleasure all the time.

» I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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