Hilaire Belloc Quotes
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Songs)
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Travel, Fulfillment)
"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Hope, Books, May)
"The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all."
- Hilaire Belloc
"The grace of God is courtesy."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: God, Courtesy, Grace)
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Death, Victory, Statistics)
"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Friends, Tea)
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Writing)
"Money gives me pleasure all the time."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Money, Time, Pleasure)
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Death, Life, Loss, Possession, Shadow, Sun)
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Autobiography, Nothing)
"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Content, Nothing)
"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Lie, 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."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Friendship, Men, Loneliness, Open, Space, World)
"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Men, Instinct)
"Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring."
- Hilaire Belloc
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Pleasure)
"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: History, Life, Effect, Language, Nationalism, Question, Religious)
"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
(Related: Love, Winning, Beginning, First, Friends, Laughter, Nothing, Quiet, Worth)
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Writing)
"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
(Related: Travel, Life, Being, Difference, Fulfillment)
"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Money, Time, Love, Pleasure)
"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
(Related: Soul, Tea, Word)
"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Work, God)