Baudelaire Quote by Charles Baudelaire Download Open image “Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.” — Charles Baudelaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baudelaire Families Great Family Great men Like Families Men Men Spite Nations Like Spite
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great. — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to… — Roman Dmowski 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 think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most subtle of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They tried picturing leaving Uncle Monty and living by themselves, trying to find jobs and take care of each other. It was a very… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel,… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
