Quotes by Hilaire Belloc
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
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.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Child! Do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.
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.
I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,...
To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose features they resembled; They laughed to see so many Lords And Ladies all assembled. The People in Between Looked underdone and harassed, And our of place and mean, And Horribly embarrassed.
I'm tired of Love I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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
Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Remote and ineffectual don.
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.
It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan.
I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.
I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.
The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne and Bridge)
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