Quotes from Hilaire Belloc
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
- Hilaire Belloc
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
- Hilaire Belloc
For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.
- Hilaire Belloc
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.
- Hilaire Belloc
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
- Hilaire Belloc
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
- Hilaire Belloc
It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.
- Hilaire Belloc
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
- Hilaire Belloc
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
- Hilaire Belloc
Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately. Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.
- Hilaire Belloc
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.
- Hilaire Belloc
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
- Hilaire Belloc