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

• In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

  

  David Perkins
  • Brain
  • Listen
  • Comprehend

• 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
  • Tree
  • Creation
  • Insult

• 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
  • Trust
  • Wisdom
  • Memory

• Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sun
  • Shining
  • Cloud

• 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
  • Heart
  • Left
  • Rib

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

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Insult
  • Comprehend