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.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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.