Victor Hugo Quotes
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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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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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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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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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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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.
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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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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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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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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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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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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.
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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.