Victor Hugo Quotes
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.