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

  • When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
  • It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
  • 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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  • 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.
    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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What are the most famous quotes from Hilaire Belloc?

The two most famous quotes from Hilaire Belloc are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Hilaire Belloc live?

Hilaire Belloc was born in 1870 and died in the year 1953.