Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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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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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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Women are more credulous than men.
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.
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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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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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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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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.