Quotes

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

“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.” Victor Hugo

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.” Victor Hugo

“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.” Victor Hugo

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” Victor Hugo

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.” Victor Hugo

“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.” Victor Hugo

“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.” Victor Hugo

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

“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.” Victor Hugo

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” Victor Hugo

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” Victor Hugo

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right” Victor Hugo

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

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.” Victor Hugo

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

“I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.” Victor Hugo

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” Victor Hugo

“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.” Victor Hugo

“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.” Victor Hugo

“A library implies an act of faith.” Victor Hugo

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” Victor Hugo

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” Victor Hugo

“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.” Victor Hugo

“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.” Victor Hugo