Victor Hugo Quotes
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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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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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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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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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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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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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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.