Top 25 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

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

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

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.

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

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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