Hilaire Belloc

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#books #dead #his #hope #i

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#god #imbecility #institute #last #run

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#boring #interesting #made #subject #therefore

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#book #child #cutting #out #pictures

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

#being #between #difference #distraction #fulfillment

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#am #book #crusades #dull #i

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#lie #nation #necessary #sometimes

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#autobiography #between #intolerable #just #nothing

Money gives me pleasure all the time. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#me #money #pleasure #time