Hilaire Belloc - Best Quotes

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.

Death

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

Hilaire Belloc

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

Loneliness

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

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

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Author: Hilaire Belloc

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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