Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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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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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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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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Toleration is the best religion.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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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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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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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.