Victor Hugo Quotes
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.