Hilaire Belloc

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

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

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.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.