The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

- Hilaire Belloc

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

- 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.

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

- Hilaire Belloc

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.

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

- Hilaire Belloc

The grace of God is courtesy.

- Hilaire Belloc

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.

- Hilaire Belloc

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

- Hilaire Belloc

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

- Hilaire Belloc