Victor Hugo Quotes
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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.
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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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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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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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A wedding is not house-keeping.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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Love is the only future God offers.