Victor Hugo Quotes
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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
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Right is right only when entire.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
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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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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed, – "The love of a damned soul.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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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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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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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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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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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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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.