Victor Hugo Quotes

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Victor Hugo

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Envy
  • Insult
  • Oneself

• We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • U.S.
  • Comprehend
  • We Cannot

• I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Gay
  • Insult

• I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Guy
  • Insult
  • Kate Beckinsale

• It's not a face, but a personal insult.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Faces
  • Insult

• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Insult

• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Language
  • Revenge
  • Insult

• Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

  

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Stupid
  • Patience
  • Comprehend

• Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Image

• It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Church
  • Ideas

• Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Blood
  • Insult

• Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Sight
  • Insult

• Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Insult

• This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Comeback
  • Insult
  • Pilots

• The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Lies
  • Pleasure

• You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

  

  William Goldman
  • Father
  • Wonderful
  • Dare

• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  

  George Washington
  • Enemy
  • Brave
  • Insult

• We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

  

  John Calvin
  • Respect
  • Charity
  • Faults

• They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Car
  • Knows
  • Jobs

• When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.

  

  Bonnie Greer
  • Journey
  • Child
  • Fight

• There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

  

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
  • Strange
  • Human Mind
  • Comprehend

• Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Something
  • Universal

• The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Help

• We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Insult
  • Comprehend