Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. >>

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to >>

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. >>

Quotations about Women

There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and e >>

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you canno >>

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American wo >>

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

Baudelaire, Charles