Victor Hugo Quotes
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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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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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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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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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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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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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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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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Lever à six, coucher à dix,Dîner à dix, souper à six,Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
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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.