"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in……" — Hilaire Belloc
"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation"
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84 Quotes by Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc has 84 quotes on this site.
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we…
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter…
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a…
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last…
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Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you…
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the…
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A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the…
— Blake Bailey
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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at…
— Aleister Crowley
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The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably…
— Thomas Huxley
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It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I…
— Virginia Woolf
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Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous…
— Georgette Heyer
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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
— Thomas Huxley
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