Quotes Victor Hugo

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When the...

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain i...

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the fir...

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a g...

The flesh is the surface of the unknown....

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are...

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of t...

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresp...

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of...

The learned man knows that he is ignorant....

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is ...

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a ma...

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which beco...

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; t...

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, t...

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but f...

The ox suffers, the cart complains....

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supporte...

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are ...

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of...

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring....

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens....

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God....

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is n...

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when...