Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc

British Author

Lived from: 1870 - 1953

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 27 july 1870 Died: 16 july 1953

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  • 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 doubtfuls.
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  • 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.
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  • I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
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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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  • 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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  • It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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  • It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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  • Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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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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  • Remote and ineffectual don.
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  • The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
    Source: The Great Heresies (1938) H. III
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  • The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
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  • 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.
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  • When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
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