Victor Hugo Quotes
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The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
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Algebra applies to the clouds.
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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?
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Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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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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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.