Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

• Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Pride

• Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Pride

• It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Humble, Pride

  Charles Baudelaire (1926). “Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry”

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