Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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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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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.
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History has its truth; and so has legend hers.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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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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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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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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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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Que l'avenir soit un orient au lieu d'être un couchant, c'est la consolation de l'homme.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.