Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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

The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat - Like an unsuccessful literary man.

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

It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'

Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond and on these faces there are no smiles.