Victor Hugo Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble.
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.
Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.
Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God.
Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
Hatred becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then the hatred of the human race, then the hatred of creation.
He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.
Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.
Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.
[Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
[Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.