“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Better than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You have done well to come and look at a man who is on the point of death. It is well that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“They fathomed principle; they attached themselves to right. They longed for the absolute, they caught glimpses of the infinite realisations; the absolute,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Counterfeits of the past, under new names, may easily be mistaken for the future. The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I have repented of the evil that I have done and have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking… — victor hugo Copy Share Image
“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
