Victor Hugo Quotes
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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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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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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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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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.