Victor Hugo Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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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.
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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.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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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!
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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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.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
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When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
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There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.
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I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
