Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

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

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

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

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

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

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

“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.”

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