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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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