573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Work makes prosperous days, wine makes happy Sundays.- Wine and Hashish

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

The Beautiful is always strange.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!