Men Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

— Charles Baudelaire

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

— Charles Baudelaire

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

— Charles Baudelaire

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

— Charles Baudelaire

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

— Charles Baudelaire

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

— Charles Baudelaire

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

— Charles Baudelaire

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and…

— Charles Baudelaire

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild…

— Charles Baudelaire

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his…

— Charles Baudelaire

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which…

— Charles Baudelaire

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that…

— Charles Baudelaire

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,…

— Charles Baudelaire

A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.…

— Charles Baudelaire

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take…

— Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer…

— Charles Baudelaire

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a…

— Charles Baudelaire

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off…

— Charles Baudelaire

The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else…

— Charles Baudelaire

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the…

— Charles Baudelaire

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of…

— Charles Baudelaire

Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father,…

— Charles Baudelaire

The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys…

— Charles Baudelaire

To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

— Charles Baudelaire

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

— Charles Baudelaire

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

— Charles Baudelaire

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by…

— Charles Baudelaire

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

— Charles Baudelaire

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

— Charles Baudelaire

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors,…

— Charles Baudelaire

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is…

— Charles Baudelaire

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a…

— Charles Baudelaire

Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of…

— Charles Baudelaire

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul…

— Charles Baudelaire