Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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

I have wandered all my life, and I have also travelled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. Hilaire Belloc

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

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