Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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

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 doubtfulls.

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.

I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

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

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

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

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

The grace of God is courtesy.

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

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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.

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.