Hilaire Belloc

Poet

56 Quotes

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

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.

The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

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.

Masa depan selalu datang sebagai kejutan, tetapi kebijaksanaan politik terdiri dari upaya paling tidak beberapa penilaian parsial tentang apa kejutan itu. Dan untuk bagian saya, saya tidak bisa tidak percaya bahwa hal utama yang tidak terduga di masa depan adalah kembalinya Islam.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Aku lelah karena cinta, aku muak dengan puisi dan sajak, tapi uang membuatku bahagia sepanjang masa.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

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.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

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