Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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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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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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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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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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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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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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.