Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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

Life, Travel, Two

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

Love, Laughter, Winning

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

Love, Time, Money

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc

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

Friendship, Men, Loneliness

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

Men, Healthy, Instinct

The grace of God is courtesy.
Hilaire Belloc

God, Grace, Courtesy

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

Life, Death, Sun

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

Hope, May, Said

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

Nothing, Remember, Else

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

Alone, Soul, 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

Work, God, Last

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

Boring, Made, Subject

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

Book, Child, Pictures

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

Life, History, Question

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

Book, Writing, Write

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

Lie, Sometimes, Nation

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

Best, Second, Songs

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

Nothing, Between, Admirable

Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Time, Money, Pleasure

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

Writing, Worst, Empty

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

Human, Friends, Tea

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

Death, Victory, Triumph

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

Him, Small, Cannot

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

Lie, Moment, Begins

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 27, 1870

Died: July 16, 1953

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