Victor Hugo Quotes
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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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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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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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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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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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.