Quotes By Victor Hugo

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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.

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

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Toleration is the best religion.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

To love is to act.