Bored Quote by Charles Baudelaire Download Open image “I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.” — Charles Baudelaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bored Conformity France
I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously,… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“That is why all romantics are anti-Voltairean, even Michelet, whose political fervor ought to have made him stand aligned with Voltaire; and that is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as,… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so sharp, so… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“On a trip to Paris one day, little Sophie Met a giant lady lighting up the night sky "What's your name, you magical monster?" "My many visitors call me the Eiffel Tower." "In all your attire, don't your sometimes tire Of being seen only as a humdrum tower? You, a dragon, a fairy watching over Paris, An Olympic torch held… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting… — Tom McDonough 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… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
Someone else who liked what I did might turn around and say, "She's reworking and rethinking everything. She could just be making blankets now,… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image