Victor Hugo Quotes
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.