Quote: Remote and ineffectual don. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: 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]
Quote: When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Money gives me pleasure all the time. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
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Quote: Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. [Hilaire Belloc]
Quote: Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. [Hilaire Belloc]