Best Quotes by Hilaire Belloc (Top 10)
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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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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
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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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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.
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The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
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It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.
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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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These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
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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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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
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More Hilaire Belloc Quotes
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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
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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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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
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Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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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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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.
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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
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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 the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
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Remote and ineffectual don.
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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
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