Victor Hugo Quotes
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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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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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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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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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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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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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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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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Toleration is the best religion.
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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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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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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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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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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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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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.