573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way..

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.