Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Wine

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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mistake, Wine, Alcohol

For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Nature, Wine, Men

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Wine, Rivers

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wine, Paradise, Drink

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Cider Song”

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Moving, Wine, Men

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Wine, Mean

"Tremendous Trifles. Secret of a Train". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Teaching, Wine, Beer

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wine, Glasses, Catholic

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wine, Water, Wife

Flying Inn (1914) ch. 5 "Wine and Water"

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

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Baby, Wine

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving Up, Wine, Intelligent

"The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.