Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

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

#Friendship

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

#Laughter

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

#Books

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

#Books

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

#Death

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

#Death

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

#Nations

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

#Hilaire Belloc

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

#Hilaire Belloc

The grace of God is courtesy.

#Hilaire Belloc

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

#Hilaire Belloc

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

#Hilaire Belloc