Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 20

All Quotes Adversity Affection Age Army Art Atheism Attitude Beauty Blindness Boredom Business Character Charity Children Christ Civil War Compassion Conscience Country Courage Creation Crime Criticism Curiosity Darkness Death Death Penalty Desire Destiny Determination Devil Dignity Drama Dying Earth Education Effort Epic Evil Faith Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Food Friendship Funny Genius Giving Glory God Goodness Grace Greatness Grief Growth Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Heart Heaven Hell History Honesty Honor House Human Nature Humanity Hunger Hurt Hypocrisy Idleness Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Intelligence Jesus Joy Killing Kindness Kissing Labor Labour Language Laughter Learning Liberty Life Literature Lost Love Love Lying Mankind Memories Morning Mountain Mourning Music Nature Opportunity Pain Passion Past Peace Philosophy Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Progress Quality Reality Reflection Religion Revolution Risk Running Sacrifice School Science Silence Sin Slavery Sleep Society Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Spring Strength Struggle Study Stupidity Style Suffering Sunrise Sunshine Time Torture True Love Truth Twilight Universe Vision Wall War Water Wealth Wine Winter Wisdom Writing Youth

He does not weep who does not see.

He does not weep who does not see.

Doe, Cry, Weeping

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

Hate, Men, Compassion

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

Kissing, Soul, Mysterious

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Wisdom, United, Eloquence

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

Memories, Aroma, Recollection

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

Night, Curiosity, Fright

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.635, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Love, Brother, Stars

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Song, Men, Angry Man

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Art, Moving, Artist

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Wisdom, Past, Echoes

Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Kings, People, Paving The Way

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

Beautiful, Heaven, New Life

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Destiny, Men, Influence

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Ideas

Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Army, Ideas, Invasion

'Histoire d'un Crime' (written 1851-2, published 1877) pt. 5, sect. 10

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

Female, Pebbles, Lovers

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Teaching, Men, Tyrants

Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

Simple, Fire, Iron

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

Letting Go, Doe, Pursuit

"Les misérables".

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

Heart, Light, Darkness

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3098, Delphi Classics

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.

Religious, Book, Race

Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Brother, War, Mean

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Doe, Action, Commit

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

Passion, Love Is, Thinking

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

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

Sleep, Color, Sky

You May Also Like: