Victor Hugo Quotes
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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Mettre tout en équilibre, c'est bien; mettre tout en harmonie, c'est mieux.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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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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They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
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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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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he.