We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. — 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
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. — 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
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo 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 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
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
