L.M. Montgomery Quotes


Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. Hilaire Belloc Death 188
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. Hilaire Belloc Travel 104
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. Hilaire Belloc Coffee 84
I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc Travel 83
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. Hilaire Belloc Science 82
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc Travel 78
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing Hilaire Belloc Authors 78
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 doubtfuls. Hilaire Belloc Shopping 76
To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty. Hilaire Belloc Walking 75
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. Hilaire Belloc Economics 75
Child! Do not throw this book about;Refrain from the unholy pleasureOf cutting all the pictures out!Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Hilaire Belloc Books 72
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. Hilaire Belloc Friend 68
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. Hilaire Belloc Uncategorized 64
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. Hilaire Belloc Books 61
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. Hilaire Belloc Conversation 59
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. Hilaire Belloc Legacy 57
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. Hilaire Belloc Men 56
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. Hilaire Belloc Content 56
The grace of God is courtesy. Hilaire Belloc Courtesy 54
I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. Hilaire Belloc Animals 47
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Hilaire Belloc Book 45
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. Hilaire Belloc Uncategorized 44
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. Hilaire Belloc Singing 43
Remote and ineffectual don. Hilaire Belloc Education 41
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. Hilaire Belloc Death 38
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. Hilaire Belloc Book 36
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc Time 36
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man. Hilaire Belloc Writers 36
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. Hilaire Belloc God 33
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. Hilaire Belloc DeceptionLying 31
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. Hilaire Belloc Communism 30
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. Hilaire Belloc History 27
These are the advantages of travel that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind Hilaire Belloc Travel 27
For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man. Hilaire Belloc Joy 24
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. Hilaire Belloc Laughter 23

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