Gilbert K. Chesterton Beer Quotations

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.