Victor Hugo Quotes
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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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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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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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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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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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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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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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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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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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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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.