Quotes By Victor Hugo

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.

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

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.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

To love is to act.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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

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

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.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A library implies an act of faith.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.