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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."

"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."

"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."

"Just as the Red Sox proved the critics wrong, Maine can compete and can win."

"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."

"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

"I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'"
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"But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly."


"There were no judgments to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were."


"To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end."


"The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care."


"The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
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