Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Explore a curated collection of 86 quotes by Charles Baudelaire. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the imm — Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. — Charles Baudelaire
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on — Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon — Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those who — Charles Baudelaire