Victor Hugo Quotes
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Il y a maintenant en France dans chaque village un flambeau allumé, le maître d'école, et une bouche qui souffle dessus, le curé.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.