All Hilaire Belloc Quotes
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire Belloc
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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
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Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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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.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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