Beautiful Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

— Charles Baudelaire

“The Beautiful is always strange.”

— Charles Baudelaire

The beautiful is always bizarre.

— Charles Baudelaire

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

— Charles Baudelaire

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our…

— Charles Baudelaire

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

— Charles Baudelaire

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

— Charles Baudelaire

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

— Charles Baudelaire

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

— Charles Baudelaire

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but…

— Charles Baudelaire

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly…

— Charles Baudelaire

What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,…

— Charles Baudelaire