Victor Hugo Quotes
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
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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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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Emotion is always new.