Hilaire BellocThinkers

The City is most a city when it is sharply defined by a wall.

Lecturing should follow a simple method: first tell them what you're going to tell them... then tell them... and then tell them what you've told them.

The Llama is like an unsuccessful literary man... a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat.

Politics is the whole art of political speech is to put nothing into it. It is much more difficult. It is more difficult than it sounds.

The Sea drives truth into a man like salt.

Statistics is the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

The Whale is no table fish. You cannot bake or boil him whole nor serve him in a dish.