Dandy Quote by Charles Baudelaire Download Open image “Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?” — Charles Baudelaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dandy Eternal Superiority
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages… Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share
True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The Dandy is the highest form of existence attainable by the human form. His life is exclusively dedicated to dressing exquisitely, parading about the… — Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of the stove and another believes that he will get well near the window. It always seems to me that I will be better off there where I am not, and this question of moving about is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share
People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize… — Dominic West Copy Share Image
Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down… — Edith Durham Copy Share
“For too long we have been the playthings of massive corporations, whose sole aim is to convert our world into a gargantuan shopping 'mall'. Pleasantry and civility are being discarded as the worthless ephemera of a bygone age; an age where men doffed their hats at ladies, and children could be counted on to mind your Jack Russell while you… — Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood Copy Share
“A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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