Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I shall yet live to see it an English nation.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

A drunkards purse is a bottle.

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

We build roads and they cost two and three and four times what they're supposed to cost.

I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really, really drunk.