Charles Bukowski Quotes

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

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

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

When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

[My] worst habit: Drinking too much Budweiser when I get angry.

When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

I drink to forget I drink.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

I drink to make other people interesting.

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.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

The country will be on a straight whisky basis, and in these days of unrest, it is dangerous to have steady beer drinkers switch to whisky.

Beer would be a great help in fighting off the mental depression which afflicts great multitudes.

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.