Victor Hugo Quotes And Sayings

When Dictatorship Is A Fact, Revolution Becomes A Right.

Strong And Bitter Words Indicate A Weak Cause.

The Greatest Happiness Of Life Is The Conviction That We Are Loved; Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather, Loved In Spite Of Ourselves.

Liberation Is Not Deliverance.

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.

There Is Nothing Like A Dream To Create The Future.

To Love Beauty Is To See Light.

Everything Being A Constant Carnival, There Is No Carnival Left.

Fashions Have Done More Harm Than Revolutions.

Try As You Will, You Cannot Annihilate That Eternal Relic Of The Human Heart, Love.

Common Sense Is In Spite Of, Not As The Result Of Education.

Joy's Smile Is Much Closer To Tears Than Laughter.

The Mountains, The Forest, And The Sea, Render Men Savage; They Develop The Fierce, But Yet Do Not Destroy The Human.

Initiative Is Doing The Right Thing Without Being Told.

Be As A Bird Perched On A Frail Branch That She Feels Bending Beneath Her, Still She Sings Away All The Same, Knowing She Has Wings.

Curiosity Is One Of The Forms Of Feminine Bravery.

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.

One Is Not Idle Because One Is Absorbed. There Is Both Visible And Invisible Labor. To Contemplate Is To Toil, To Think Is To Do. The Crossed Arms Work, The Clasped Hands Act. The Eyes Upturned To Heaven Are An Act Of Creation.

The First Symptom Of Love In A Young Man Is Timidity; In A Girl Boldness.

Each Man Should Frame Life So That At Some Future Hour Fact And His Dreaming Meet.

I'm Religiously Opposed To Religion.

What Is History? An Echo Of The Past In The Future; A Reflex From The Future On The Past.

I Met In The Street A Very Poor Young Man Who Was In Love. His Hat Was Old, His Coat Worn, His Cloak Was Out At The Elbows, The Water Passed Through His Shoes, - And The Stars Through His Soul.

Short As Life Is, We Make It Still Shorter By The Careless Waste Of Time.

Sorrow Is A Fruit. God Does Not Make It Grow On Limbs Too Weak To Bear It.

Love Is A Portion Of The Soul Itself, And It Is Of The Same Nature As The Celestial Breathing Of The Atmosphere Of Paradise.

Evil. Mistrust Those Who Rejoice At It Even More Than Those Who Do It.

To Give Thanks In Solitude Is Enough. Thanksgiving Has Wings And Goes Where It Must Go. Your Prayer Knows Much More About It Than You Do.

A Great Artist Is A Great Man In A Great Child.

To Be Perfectly Happy It Does Not Suffice To Possess Happiness, It Is Necessary To Have Deserved It.

Men Become Accustomed To Poison By Degrees.

The Animal Is Ignorant Of The Fact That He Knows. The Man Is Aware Of The Fact That He Is Ignorant.

The Ideal And The Beautiful Are Identical; The Ideal Corresponds To The Idea, And Beauty To Form; Hence Idea And Substance Are Cognate.

To Contemplate Is To Look At Shadows.

Reaction - A Boat Which Is Going Against The Current But Which Does Not Prevent The River From Flowing On.

Taste Is The Common Sense Of Genius.

The Soul Has Illusions As The Bird Has Wings: It Is Supported By Them.

The Three Great Problems Of This Century; The Degradation Of Man In The Proletariat, The Subjection Of Women Through Hunger, The Atrophy Of The Child By Darkness.

Son, Brother, Father, Lover, Friend. There Is Room In The Heart For All The Affections, As There Is Room In Heaven For All The Stars.

To Rise From Error To Truth Is Rare And Beautiful.

Love That Is Not Jealous Is Neither True Nor Pure.

Certain Thoughts Are Prayers. There Are Moments When, Whatever Be The Attitude Of The Body, The Soul Is On Its Knees.

Hell Is An Outrage On Humanity. When You Tell Me That Your Deity Made You In His Image, I Reply That He Must Have Been Very Ugly.

Life's Greatest Happiness Is To Be Convinced We Are Loved.

To Love Another Person Is To See The Face Of God.

Stupidity Talks, Vanity Acts.

To Think Of Shadows Is A Serious Thing.