All Charles Baudelaire Quotes
- It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on… Drunk
- Nothing can be done except little by little. Classroom
- I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. Barely
- I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick… Cat
- Always be a poet, even in prose. Poet
- Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. Along
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Agree
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same… All
- How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. Form
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Beings
- The world only goes round by misunderstanding. Goes
- Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. Any
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. Beyond
- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. Memories
- Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. Beautiful
- The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is… All
- Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. Common
- Genius is childhood recalled at will. Childhood
- It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. Beauty
- The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. Captain