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Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 34

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Men, Excellence, Upright Man

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

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Beautiful, Sublime, Needs

Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo ...”

Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

Order, Ideas, Inspire

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

Running, Heart, Giving

Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Men, Wind, Abuse

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

Darkness, Sun, Strange

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

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

Philosophy, Energy, Should

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.133

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

Grief, Plunge, Cosette

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

It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

Men, Shadow, Shapes

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

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

Real, Silence, Soul

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

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

Real, Soul, Vices

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

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

Art, Judgement, Genius

Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Sunrise, Depth, Critical Moments

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

Two, Long, Touching

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

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

Struggle, Heart, Ideas

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

Funny, Birthday, Men

"Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

Christmas, Night, Air

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

Expression, Law, Names

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

In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

Opera

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Wisdom, Wicked, Succeed

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

Pain, Causes, Left

Victor Hugo (1996). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, Laurel Leaf

At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

Eye, Passion, Night

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

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

People, Praying

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Wisdom, Men, Brain

Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Kings, France, Ends

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