Charles Baudelaire
18 quotations
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.