573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Here is the charming evening, the criminal's friend. It comes like an accomplice, with stealthy tread.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

Listen, my darling, listen to soft night approaching.

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

I am bored in France because everyone resembles Voltaire.