Victor Hugo Quotes
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
William Wordsworth
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
William Emerson Arnett
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
You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
William Goldman
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
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
John Calvin
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
David Perkins
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Stephen Fry
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.
Socrates
Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.
Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.
Charlotte Bronte
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
Victor Hugo
