Quotes by Victor Marie Hugo
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate . So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Education
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
