Baudelaire Quotes

28 quotes by 15 authors

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. — Charles Baudelaire
But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene...… — Ken Kesey
We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later… — Lionel Trilling
Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new book. He also reminds me… — Kris Saknussemm
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. — Jonathan Franzen
The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and… — Malcolm Mclaren
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton… — Marilyn Manson
Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!â€ said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside as she dashed by. — Daniel Handler
And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a… — Daniel Handler
E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was… — Daniel Handler
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. — Daniel Handler
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our… — Gaston Bachelard
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. — Charles Baudelaire
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem… — Christopher Moore
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy… — Daniel Handler
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they… — Daniel Handler
Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying… — Daniel Handler
The beautiful is always bizarre. — Charles Baudelaire
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with… — Daniel Handler

Who Wrote These Baudelaire Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 28 Baudelaire Quotes as follows: