Hilaire Belloc quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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