Charles Baudelaire Quotes

La jeune fille, ce qu'elle est en réalité.Une petite sotte et une petite salope; la plus grande imbécile unie à la plus grande dépravation.

Charles Baudelaire

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• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Courage
  • Ambition

• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Government
  • Need

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Doing

• It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Me
  • Just

• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Born
  • Paris

• We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Opportunity
  • Wonder
  • Stars

• When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Different
  • Today

• The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Family
  • Love

• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Marriage
  • Sex
  • Gay

• Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of footballers, and when they fall foul, they become big news.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Easy

• Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Really
  • Get
  • Late

• For a building that is supposedly a symbol of love, it has generated a lot of anger. Or rather, some people have been angered by what others have said about it, and have felt called on to defend its honour.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People

• No gifts this year. I have given gifts on the Tour de France and very rarely has it ever come back to help me. This is the biggest bike race in the world and it means more than any bike race in the world. It means more to me than any bike race in the world. I want to win … no gifts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • World
  • Help
  • Bike

• I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • God
  • Blow
  • Acknowledge

• ... and everybody will have what they never yet have had, a certain amount of that priceless boon, leisure-- leisure to sit down and look at themselves, and inquire what it is they really mean, and really want, and really intend to do with their lives.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Want
  • Mean
  • Leisure

• We always have relationships in our lives with people we've fallen in love with, who come back into our lives, and we fall in love with them again and go, 'I shouldn't be doing this,' but you can't stop it.

  

  James Purefoy
  • People
  • Stop
  • Fall

• I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• La jeune fille, ce qu'elle est en réalité.Une petite sotte et une petite salope; la plus grande imbécile unie à la plus grande dépravation.

  

  Charles Baudelaire