Victor Hugo Quotes
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!
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France lost a great novel last night.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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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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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.