Men Quotes by Victor Hugo

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

— Victor Hugo

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

— Victor Hugo

“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a”

— Victor Hugo

God made the water but men made the wine.

— Victor Hugo

Women are more credulous than men.

— Victor Hugo

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

— Victor Hugo

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

— Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king…

— Victor Hugo

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

— Victor Hugo

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

— Victor Hugo

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

— Victor Hugo

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

— Victor Hugo

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

— Victor Hugo

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

— Victor Hugo

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

— Victor Hugo

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in…

— Victor Hugo

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit… They confound the brilliance of the firmament with…

— Victor Hugo

The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing…

— Victor Hugo

If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it…

— Victor Hugo

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all…

— Victor Hugo

Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare…

— Victor Hugo

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything…

— Victor Hugo

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste,…

— Victor Hugo

Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

— Victor Hugo

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom…

— Victor Hugo

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted,…

— Victor Hugo

I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

— Victor Hugo

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do…

— Victor Hugo

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest…

— Victor Hugo

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which…

— Victor Hugo

Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will;…

— Victor Hugo

The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of…

— Victor Hugo

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,…

— Victor Hugo

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

— Victor Hugo

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

— Victor Hugo

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

— Victor Hugo

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

— Victor Hugo

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

— Victor Hugo

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

— Victor Hugo