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Hilaire Belloc Quotes (65 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: The Silence of the Sea |
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| “Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.” ―Hilaire Belloc Source/Notes: Hilaire Belloc's stories, essays and poems (1963 edition) |
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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 and the love of friends.” ―Hilaire Belloc Source/Notes: Verses (1910) Dedicatory Ode |
| “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 Source/Notes: As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 829 |
| “I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.” ―Hilaire Belloc Source/Notes: Fatigued, Sonnets and Verse (1923) |
| “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 Source/Notes: On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1970 edition), Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465529282 |
| Source/Notes: Letter to G.K. Chesterton (12 December 1917) |
| Source/Notes: Selected essays of Hilaire Belloc (1950 edition) |
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Hilaire Belloc
Born: July 27, 1870
Died: July 16, 1953 (aged 82)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet, writer
Bio: Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters, and political activist.
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