Victor Hugo Quotes
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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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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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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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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He does not weep who does not see.
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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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Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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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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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.