« All Drinking Quotes · Charles Bukowski's Page
Drinking Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
- Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
- Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
- Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
- I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out…
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
- When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.
- I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.
- Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
- Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and…
- Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
- That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if…
- Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out…
- I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
- I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
- stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
- I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge…
- in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,…
- When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
- It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in…
More Drinking Quotes
- In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the… — Winston Churchill
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- Happiness is good health and a bad memory. — Ingrid Bergman
- I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in… — John Bonham
- Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. — Billy Carter
- When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just… — Eddie Van Halen
- I would like to make a toast to lying, stealing, cheating and drinking. If you're going to lie, lie for a friend.… — Unknown Author