Filter quotes by topic
Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.”
“I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls”
“Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.”
“Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?”
“My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.”
“A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.”
“Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.”
“Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.”
“Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.”
“Monastic incarceration is castration.”
“Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.”
“What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.”
“The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.”
“Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.”
“Right is right only when entire.”
“Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.”
“A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.”
“Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.”
“One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.”
“Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.”
“Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.”