Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Drunkenness

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Drinking, Beer, Animal

  All Things Considered (1908) "Wine When it is Red"

• If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Sex, Wine

• Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rolling, Made, Drunkards

  'The Rolling English Road' (1914)

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