Victor Hugo Quotes
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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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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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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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smil.