Victor Hugo Quotes

Her nose was not handsome— it was pretty; neither straight nor curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,—which drives painters...

Long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved;

Momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.

One felt the sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the leaves, by night the leaves protect the wings.

One speaks to one's self, talks to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external silence; there is a great tumult; everything about us talks except the mouth. The realities of the s...

That which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

The fate of Europe would have been different. A few drops of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz was a l...

The galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.

The old man raised his finger toward heaven, and said, 'The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no ME, the ME would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would n...

The winter always bears away with it a portion of our sadness;

There are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the distinctions already pointed out in another chapter,—there are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refu...

There is always more wretchedness below than there is brotherhood above,

To arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything, except get into debt. Rather than borrow, he did not eat.

To be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity,

What can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.

В тетрадях светской музыки, проникавших в монастырь, слово «amour» (любовь) везде было заменено словами: «tambour» (барабан) или «pandour» (венгерский солдат). Это порождало загадки, над разрешением к...

أصبحت كمن يموتون فى الثلوج، أجد لذة فى اقتراب النوم الأخير

إن جميع جرائم الإنسان لتبدأ بتشرد الأطفال .

الحرمان في الصغر عديم الجدوى متى آل الى الفلاح , إنه طاقة توجه إرادة الرجل نحو العمل المتواصل , وتلهم الروح , و تلهب الإحساس , و ترهف النفس , تجرد الإنسان من الحياة المادية و تجعله يتشوف الى الحياة ال...

اول از همه برایت آرزومندم که عاشق شوی، و اگر هستی، کسی هم به تو عشق بورزد، و اگر اینگونه نیست، تنهائیت کوتاه باشد، و پس از تنهائیت، نفرت از کسی نیابی . آرزومندم که اینگونه پیش نیاید، اما اگر پیش آمد،...