Robin Williams Quotes

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

He who loves wine … shall not be rich.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite.” “Sure,” she said.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don't like beer that much - though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer.

Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

I don't think vodka is useful. I think it's for people who don't like alcohol, in which case, you probably shouldn't be drinking it.

I don't like to drink alone 'cause there's nobody to fight with.

Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

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.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.