Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures.

If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.

A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

When we make mistakes they call it evil

Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.