Top 25 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

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.

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

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

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

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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

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

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

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

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