Victor Hugo Quotes And Sayings

The Man Who Does Not Know Other Languages, Unless He Is A Man Of Genius, Necessarily Has Deficiencies In His Ideas.

The Word Is The Verb, And The Verb Is God.

As A Means Of Contrast With The Sublime, The Grotesque Is, In Our View, The Richest Source That Nature Can Offer.

The Learned Man Knows That He Is Ignorant.

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!

He Who Is Not Capable Of Enduring Poverty Is Not Capable Of Being Free.

No One Knows Like A Woman How To Say Things Which Are At Once Gentle And Deep.

Many Great Actions Are Committed In Small Struggles.

One Sometimes Says: 'He Killed Himself Because He Was Bored With Life.' One Ought Rather To Say: 'He Killed Himself Because He Was Bored By Lack Of Life.'

The Wicked Envy And Hate; It Is Their Way Of Admiring.

Thought Is More Than A Right - It Is The Very Breath Of Man. Whoever Fetters Thought Attacks Man Himself. To Speak, To Write, To Publish, Are Things, So Far As The Right Is Concerned, Absolutely Identical. They Are The Ever-enlarging Circles Of Intelligence In Action; They Are The Sonorous Waves Of Thought.

In The French Language, There Is A Great Gulf Between Prose And Poetry; In English, There Is Hardly Any Difference. It Is A Splendid Privilege Of The Great Literary Languages Greek, Latin, And French That They Possess A Prose. English Has Not This Privilege. There Is No Prose In English.

The Most Powerful Symptom Of Love Is A Tenderness Which Becomes At Times Almost Insupportable.

Love Is Jealous, And Ingenious In Self-torture In Proportion As It Is Pure And Intense.

When A Man Understands The Art Of Seeing, He Can Trace The Spirit Of An Age And The Features Of A King Even In The Knocker On A Door.

A Faith Is A Necessity To A Man. Woe To Him Who Believes In Nothing.

I Don't Mind What Congress Does, As Long As They Don't Do It In The Streets And Frighten The Horses.

Doing Nothing Is Happiness For Children And Misery For Old Men.

There Are Thoughts Which Are Prayers. There Are Moments When, Whatever The Posture Of The Body, The Soul Is On Its Knees.

The Supreme Happiness Of Life Is The Conviction That We Are Loved; Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather In Spite Of Ourselves.

The Brutalities Of Progress Are Called Revolutions. When They Are Over We Realize This: That The Human Race Has Been Roughly Handled, But That It Has Advanced.

No One Ever Keeps A Secret So Well As A Child.

There Is No Such Thing As A Little Country. The Greatness Of A People Is No More Determined By Their Numbers Than The Greatness Of A Man Is By His Height.

Those Who Live Are Those Who Fight.

It Is Most Pleasant To Commit A Just Action Which Is Disagreeable To Someone Whom One Does Not Like.

Conscience Is God Present In Man.

Smallness In A Great Man Seems Smaller By Its Disproportion With All The Rest.

Well, For Us, In History Where Goodness Is A Rare Pearl, He Who Was Good Almost Takes Precedence Over He Who Was Great.

Genius: The Superhuman In Man.

An Invasion Of Armies Can Be Resisted, But Not An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

Style Is The Substance Of The Subject Called Unceasingly To The Surface.

A Creditor Is Worse Than A Slave-owner; For The Master Owns Only Your Person, But A Creditor Owns Your Dignity, And Can Command It.

Idleness Is The Heaviest Of All Oppressions.

The Flesh Is The Surface Of The Unknown.

There Have Been In This Century Only One Great Man And One Great Thing: Napoleon And Liberty. For Want Of The Great Man, Let Us Have The Great Thing.

To Think Is Of Itself To Be Useful; It Is Always And In All Cases A Striving Toward God.

Scepticism, That Dry Caries Of The Intelligence.

The Little People Must Be Sacred To The Big Ones, And It Is From The Rights Of The Weak That The Duty Of The Strong Is Comprised.

The Omnipotence Of Evil Has Never Resulted In Anything But Fruitless Efforts. Our Thoughts Always Escape From Whoever Tries To Smother Them.

Forty Is The Old Age Of Youth; Fifty The Youth Of Old Age.

The Drama Is Complete Poetry. The Ode And The Epic Contain It Only In Germ; It Contains Both Of Them In A State Of High Development, And Epitomizes Both.

Indigestion Is Charged By God With Enforcing Morality On The Stomach.

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.

Never Laugh At Those Who Suffer; Suffer Sometimes Those Who Laugh.

I Put A Phrygian Cap On The Old Dictionary.

When Liberty Returns, I Will Return.

One Believes Others Will Do What He Will Do To Himself.

One Sees Qualities At A Distance And Defects At Close Range.

But When Ill Indeed, Even Dismissing The Doctor Don't Always Succeed.

Close By The Rights Of Man, At The Least Set Beside Them, Are The Rights Of The Spirit.