Hilaire Belloc Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Hilaire Belloc

  Funny, Death, Reading

  "On His Books" l. 1 (1923)

• I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Writing, Dull

• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

• Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Children, Book, Cutting

  A Bad Child's Book of Beasts dedication (1896)

• There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Oxford, Meditation

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