Victor Hugo Quotes
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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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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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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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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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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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Women are more credulous than men.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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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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I think, therefore I doubt.