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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 17

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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Eye, Men, Sea

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

Years, Lasts, Crowns

Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.27

...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

Risk, Fascination, World

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Men, Light, Numbers

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Sentences, Reprieve

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

Mind, Too Much, Void

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.116, Modern Library

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Night, Names, Giving

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

Mountain, Building, Century

Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.63, Oxford University Press, UK

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

Children, Joy, Accepting

Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.86, Courier Corporation

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

Paris, Soul, Breathe

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

Jesus, Christ, Pardon

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

Men, Thinking, Trying

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.312, Wordsworth Editions

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Fighting, Museums, People

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Men, Rome, Tyrants

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Last Days of a Condemned and Life of Victor Hugo”, Wildside Press LLC

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

War, Unjust War, Civil War

"Les Miserables".

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Spiritual, Jobs, Real

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Life, Country, Greatness

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

Winning, Voice, Progress

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

Confused, Infamous, Unfortunate

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

Fire, Soul, Sparks

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Spring, People, Would Be

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

Mother, Children, Eye

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

Book, Men, Doe

VICTOR HUGO (1866). “TOILERS OF THE SEA”, p.9

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Smile, Jesus, Civilization

"Centenaire de Voltaire" (1878)

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