Hilaire Belloc Quotes

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside w...

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

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, hum...

In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was ...

...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, ...

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

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

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

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and ...

An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence "by the swo...

You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We a...

All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to c...

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, ...

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of St...

A microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.

The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He will ...

The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat...

Mr. Orage, one of the most active and intelligent reformers for the last generation in England, atte...

From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of ...

The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throa...

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

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefor...

No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time...

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

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

There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep,...

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...

He [the poet] brings out the inner part of things and presents them to men in such a way that they c...

Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid...

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

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat...

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

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

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throa...

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took th...

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mi...