Hilaire Belloc Book Quotations

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

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

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

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

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.