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

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

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

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

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

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

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