Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Victor Hugo

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Victor Hugo

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Victor Hugo

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Victor Hugo

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Victor Hugo

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Victor Hugo

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Victor Hugo

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo

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.

Richard Bach

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.

Robert Frost

It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love.