Hilaire Belloc Quotes


31 quotes:

"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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"Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took their fees, "There is no cure for this disease"
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"Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took their fees, "There is no cure for this disease"
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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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"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
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"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
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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."
Author: Belloc Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes
"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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"Money gives me pleasure all the time."
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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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"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
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"The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie."
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"When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'."
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"I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'"
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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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"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
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"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
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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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"Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring."
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"The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all."
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