Charles Baudelaire quotes

" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. " # Love

" Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. " # Poetry and Poets

" You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. " # Identity # Love # Books - Reading

" An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. " # Bores and Boredom # Fools and Foolishness # The future

" The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. " # Leaders and Leadership

" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. " # Government

" Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one. " # Action

" There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. " # Poetry and Poets # Love # Army and Navy

" A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. " # Friends and Friendship

" I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro. " # Diplomacy # Class # Communism and Socialism