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


Hilaire Belloc

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
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HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the ...
HILAIRE BELLOC For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mi...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said,
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part o...
HILAIRE BELLOC Remote and ineffectual don.
HILAIRE BELLOC Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
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HILAIRE BELLOC The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
HILAIRE BELLOC When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside w...
HILAIRE BELLOC It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wande...
HILAIRE BELLOC To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for ...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hi...
HILAIRE BELLOC Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who from h...
HILAIRE BELLOC Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
HILAIRE BELLOC Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictu...
HILAIRE BELLOC Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is of...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
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 ou...
HILAIRE BELLOC Money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance,...
HILAIRE BELLOC Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
HILAIRE BELLOC I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
HILAIRE BELLOC Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the we...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat...
HILAIRE BELLOC An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefor...
HILAIRE BELLOC The grace of God is courtesy.
HILAIRE BELLOC Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slave...
HILAIRE BELLOC All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud an...
HILAIRE BELLOC We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC Cautionary Verses for Children
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
HILAIRE BELLOC And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
HILAIRE BELLOC Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took the...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires
HILAIRE BELLOC Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!
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HILAIRE BELLOC I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
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HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear o...
HILAIRE BELLOC Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
HILAIRE BELLOC All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to c...
HILAIRE BELLOC Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could po...
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
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