Famous Quotes

Quotes by Victor Hugo

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
• A great artist is a great man in a great child.
• A library implies an act of faith.
• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
• A war between Europeans is a civil war.
• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
• Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
• Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
• Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
• Conscience is God present in man.
• Dear God! 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.
• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
• Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
• 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!
• I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
• 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.
• I'm religiously opposed to religion.