Quotes

“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

“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.” Victor Hugo

“The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.” Victor Hugo

“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” Victor Hugo

“When liberty returns, I will return.” Victor Hugo

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

“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.” Victor Hugo

“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.” Victor Hugo

“I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.” Victor Hugo

“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.” Victor Hugo

“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” Victor Hugo

“One believes others will do what he will do to himself.” Victor Hugo

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” Victor Hugo

“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.” Victor Hugo

“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.” Victor Hugo

“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.” Victor Hugo

“Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.” Victor Hugo

“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.” Victor Hugo

“Liberation is not deliverance.” Victor Hugo

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

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.” Victor Hugo

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.” Victor Hugo

“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.” Victor Hugo

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.” Victor Hugo

“To think of shadows is a serious thing.” Victor Hugo

“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.” Victor Hugo

“Wisdom is a sacred communion.” Victor Hugo

“Toleration is the best religion.” Victor Hugo

“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.” Victor Hugo

“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” Victor Hugo