Victor Hugo Quotes

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Those who do not weep, do not see.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Those who live are those who fight.

Toleration is the best religion.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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

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

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

God knows better than we do what we need.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.