Quotes from Hilaire Belloc

In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In... What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

The chief defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of string.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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.

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis pastHow fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

For every time she shouted "Fire!"They only answered "Little liar!"And therefore when her aunt returned,Matilda, and the house, were burned.

Matilda told such dreadful lies,It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth,Had kept a strict regard for truth,Attempted to believe Matilda:The effort very nearly killed her.

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

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

When people call this beast to mind,They marvel more and moreAt such a little tail behind,So large a trunk before.

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

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.

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

Remote and ineffectual don.

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

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

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

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

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.