17 Quotations by Hilaire Belloc
- 1. Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could po ...
- 2. From quiet homes and first beginning,
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- 3. I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
- 4. I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
- 5. I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is ...
- 6. I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
- 7. Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
- 8. It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
- 9. It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
- 10. Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so it is with autobiograp ...
- 11. Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
- 12. Of Courtesy--it is much less
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- 13. The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throa ...
- 14. The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
- 15. The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
- 16. When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside w ...
- 17. When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
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