G.K. Chesterton Quotes About Food
Born in London, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most prolific English writers of the 20th century.
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“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.”
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”
“The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”
“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.’”
“No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness—or as good as drink.”
“But since he stood for England
And knew what England means,
Unless you give him bacon
You must not give him beans.”
And knew what England means,
Unless you give him bacon
You must not give him beans.”
“For the poor, beer is a necessity, as tobacco is very nearly a necessity; it is only for people sufficiently rich and fashionable to be faddists that either is really a luxury.”
