A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield. — Victor Hugo Battlefields Copy Share Image
“Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.” — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit… — Victor Hugo Good man Copy Share Image
“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.” — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“BOOK FOURTH.—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER” — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. — Victor Hugo Men Copy Share Image
To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird,… — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind… — Victor Hugo Psychology Copy Share Image
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous,… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and… — Victor Hugo Fate Copy Share Image
“Geniuses are disconcerting. Their comings and goings in the ideal world give one vertigo . . . . They have a telescope… — Victor Hugo Genius Copy Share Image
“Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow… — Victor Hugo Prayer Copy Share Image
“To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
“The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
“I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Affliction Copy Share Image
“The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor… — Victor Hugo Gloomy Copy Share Image
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Idea Copy Share Image
“Sa sazvježđima nebeskih dubina oni brkaju zvijezde koje ostaju od pačijih nogu u mekom blatu kaljuže.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul. — Victor Hugo Kissing Copy Share Image
“Ballast yourself with reality and throw yourself into the sea . The sea is inspiration .” — Victor Hugo Inspiration Copy Share Image
“A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world. — Victor Hugo Europe Copy Share Image
“Proper distribution does not imply an equal share but an equitable share. Equity is the essence of equality.” — Victor Hugo Equality Copy Share Image
Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. — Victor Hugo Boldness Copy Share Image
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers. — Victor Hugo Farmers Copy Share Image
