Victor Hugo Quotes
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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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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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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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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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
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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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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.