Victor Hugo Quotes
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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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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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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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 soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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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.