Quote #14
The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
More from Hilaire Belloc
- Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
- The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
- All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
- Oh! let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about!
- Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
- Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
- In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
- Now the faith is old and the Devil bold Exceedingly bold indeed. And the masses of doubt that are floating about Would smother a mortal cre…