I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Animals)

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Biography)

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Books - Reading)

Remote and ineffectual don. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Colleges and Universities)

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Death and Dying)

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. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Expenditure)

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. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Friends and Friendship)

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. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Friends and Friendship)

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Lies and Lying)

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Money)

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Science and Scientists)

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. - (Belloc, Hilaire - Song and Singing)

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