Victor Hugo Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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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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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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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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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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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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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.