Victor Hugo Quotes and Quotations
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Those who live are those who fight.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Loving is half of believing.
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
Inspiration and genius - one and the same.
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
Progress - the stride of God!
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
Toleration is the best religion.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.