Robert Benchley Quotes

I drink to forget I drink.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.