Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 20
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 10
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 8
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 4
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 3
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 3
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 2
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
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. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
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. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 1
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. Victor Hugo French Poet More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 0
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! Victor Hugo French Author More Victor Hugo Quotes 0