Wine Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“I bought two tall six-packs of Schlitz and went back to my place and drank down the requiem.”

— Charles Bukowski

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

— Charles Bukowski

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his…

— Charles Bukowski

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

— Charles Bukowski

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

— Charles Bukowski

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

— Charles Bukowski

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

— Charles Bukowski

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

— Charles Bukowski

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

— Charles Bukowski

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe…

— Charles Bukowski

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine…

— Charles Bukowski

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than…

— Charles Bukowski

“Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine...Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want…

— Charles Bukowski

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try…

— Charles Bukowski

“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started…

— Charles Bukowski

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you…

— Charles Bukowski

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It…

— Charles Bukowski

i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine…

— Charles Bukowski

“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt…

— Charles Bukowski

Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work.…

— Charles Bukowski

I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards,…

— Charles Bukowski

“To ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on…

— Charles Bukowski

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on…

— Charles Bukowski

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected…

— Charles Bukowski

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not…

— Charles Bukowski

“I saw headline in paper: CONGRESS VOWS FIGHT ON CRIME. and I almost sat down and wrote a mother essay, 8 or…

— charles bukowski

“it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.”

— Charles Bukowski

When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

— Charles Bukowski

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

— Charles Bukowski

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

— Charles Bukowski

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

— Charles Bukowski

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

— Charles Bukowski

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

— Charles Bukowski

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

— Charles Bukowski

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

— Charles Bukowski

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

— Charles Bukowski

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head…

— Charles Bukowski

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The…

— Charles Bukowski

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry…

— Charles Bukowski