Victor Hugo Quotes
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.