Inspirational Quotes by Hilaire Belloc (British Writer, Poet)

The worst sort of hypocrite and liar is the man who lies to himself in order to feel at ease.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Hypocrisy

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Scientists, Science

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Singing

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Autobiography, Legacy, Biography

To walk because it is good for you warps the soul, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he thinks it his duty.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Walking

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Conflict

From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There’s nothing worth the winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Friendship, Laughter, Friends and Friendship, Winning

Remote and ineffectual don.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Colleges, Education, Universities

I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Money

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Authors & Writing

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Conversation

I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten ’em.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Animals, Hunting

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.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Friendship, Space, Friends

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Books

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
—Hilaire Belloc

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Authors & Writing

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Lying, Lies, Deception/Lying

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.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Shopping

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Welfare

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Death, Dying

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this—we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
—Hilaire Belloc
Topics: Travel

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