Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
-
I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
-
Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
-
I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
-
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
-
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
-
It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
-
The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
-
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
-
I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
-
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
-
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
-
I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
-
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
-
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
-
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
-
I speak two languages, Body and English.
-
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
-
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
-
It is a kingdom of conscience, or nothing.
-
I think that, occasionally, fame and popularity can garner more attention for individuals or films. But as a person who believes in my craft, I like the romantic notion that skill and hard work is more important than notoriety.
-
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
