Quotes by
Victor Hugo |
1802-1885 , French writer
French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, 1831. | 52 quotes | 5,852 visits |
Quotations
| • | We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. 24 |
| • | It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. 24 |
| • | Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. 13 |
| • | Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. 13 |
| • | I see a black light. (his last words) 11 |
| • | Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. 8 |
| • | 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. 8 |
| • | The eyes cannot see God well except through tears. 7 |
| • | Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. 6 |
| • | When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. 6 |
| • | Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. 6 |
| • | A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. 6 |
| • | To love another person is to see the face of God. 6 |
| • | Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. 6 |
| • | Men hunt. Women fish. 6 |
| • | The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. 5 |
| • | Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. 5 |
| • | Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. 5 |
| • | The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. 5 |
| • | The flesh is the ashes, the soul is the flame. 5 |
| • | He who opens a school door, closes a prison. 4 |
| • | Toleration is the best religion. 4 |
| • | Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. 4 |
| • | Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. 4 |
| • | There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. 4 |
| • | Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. 4 |
| • | Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor. 4 |
| • | There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering: a hell of boredom. 4 |
| • | The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. 4 |
| • | The dream is the aquarium of the night. 4 |
| • | Life is a flower of which love is the honey. 3 |
| • | Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. 3 |
| • | There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. 3 |
| • | To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. 3 |
| • | Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. 3 |
| • | The girl hopes, the woman enjoys, the old lady remembers. 3 |
| • | I can, I want, I know: Three words that rule the world. 3 |
| • | There is now a European nationality, as in the time of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides was a Greek nationality. 3 |
| • | A writer is a world trapped in a person. 3 |
| • | You thought I was a tide and I was a deluge! 2 |
| • | Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. 2 |
| • | A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. 2 |
| • | Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. 2 |
| • | Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. 2 |
| • | Popularity? It's glory's small change. 2 |
| • | It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. 2 |
| • | Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. 2 |
| • | God knows better than we do what we need. 2 |
| • | The literate, the erudite, the learned mount by means of ladders; poets and artists are birds. 2 |
| • | If I were Jesus, I would have saved Judah. 2 |
| • | The French Revolution was the most important step for mankind since the advent of Jesus Christ. 2 |
| • | In poverty, the body shake against each other, as in the cold, but hearts away. 2 |
