Talk:Hilaire Belloc

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

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

• Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• First, I tell them what I am going to tell them, then I tell them, then I tell them what I told them.