Victor Hugo Quotes
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
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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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Another story must begin!
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
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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 have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.