Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.” — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. — Victor Hugo Affair Copy Share Image
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are. — Victor Hugo Friends Copy Share Image
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. — Victor Hugo Earth Copy Share Image
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. — Victor Hugo Intense Copy Share Image
“Better than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day… — Victor Hugo Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The pun is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Red is an all-embracing colour,' said the bishop. 'How fortunate that those who despise it in a bonnet revere it in a… — Victor Hugo Bishop Copy Share Image
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before… — Victor Hugo Body Copy Share Image
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the… — Victor Hugo Education 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
“Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“The right, indeed, is indestructible. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Teutonic. Kings waste their energies in that… — Victor Hugo Sooner or later Copy Share Image
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march.… — Victor Hugo Art 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
“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed… — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep… — Victor Hugo Brain Copy Share Image
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can… — Victor Hugo Materialism Copy Share Image
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.” — Victor Hugo Heaven Copy Share Image
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. — Victor Hugo Blind Copy Share Image
“People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.” — Victor Hugo Misfortune Copy Share Image
“Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)” — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Čovjek nije krug s jednim jedinim središtem; on je elipsa s dvije žiže. Činjenice su jedna, a ideje druga.” — Victor Hugo Covjek Copy Share Image
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. — Victor Hugo Convict Copy Share Image
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo Language Copy Share Image
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
