Hilaire Belloc quotes Born: 07/27/1870 Died: 07/16/1953 Country: united_kingdom

• Remote and ineffectual don. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. (Hilaire Belloc) [loss/death/life/shadow]
• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls. (Hilaire Belloc) [day/remember]
• 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. (Hilaire Belloc) [cold/men]
• It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. (Hilaire Belloc) [nation]
• Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. (Hilaire Belloc)
• The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. (Hilaire Belloc) [take]
• It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. (Hilaire Belloc)
• I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. (Hilaire Belloc)
• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. (Hilaire Belloc) [books]
• All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. (Hilaire Belloc)
• An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. (Hilaire Belloc)
• 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. (Hilaire Belloc)
• I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. (Hilaire Belloc)
• 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. (Hilaire Belloc)
• I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Money gives me pleasure all the time. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. (Hilaire Belloc)
• Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. (Hilaire Belloc)
• The grace of God is courtesy. (Hilaire Belloc)
• The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. (Hilaire Belloc)
• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. (Hilaire Belloc)

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