Quotes by Victor Marie Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Toleration is the best religion.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
