Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to co >>

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one bei >>

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and >>

Quotations about Virtue

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; vi >>

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, ro >>

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Vi >>

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Baudelaire, Charles