Victor Hugo Quotes
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."
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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.
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Lever à six, coucher à dix,Dîner à dix, souper à six,Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.