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Category: Hilaire Belloc

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

Life, Language, Nationalism

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Victory, Statistics, Triumph

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

Life, Sympathy, Sun

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.

friendship, loneliness

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

I Am, Said, May

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

writers, writing

The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat With an indolent expression and an undulating throat – Like an unsuccessful literary man.

writers, writing

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

writers, writing

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

Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees ‘There is no cure for this disease.’

medicine, sickness

Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.

The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.