Victor Hugo Quotes
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory.
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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.