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

Quote by Hilaire Belloc

Topics: Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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

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

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that...

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that...

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

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

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

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

The grace of God is courtesy.

The grace of God is courtesy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day...

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day...

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

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

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all...

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all...

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

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

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the...

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the...

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties...

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties...

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends...

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends...