There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not… — Victor Hugo Coats Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Ancient Copy Share Image
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve… — Victor Hugo Achieve Copy Share Image
“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the… — Victor Hugo Bare feet Copy Share Image
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his… — Victor Hugo Asks Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Aging Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. — Victor Hugo Fruit Copy Share Image
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to… — Victor Hugo Accepting Copy Share Image
“Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the… — Victor Hugo Mindset Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history… — Victor Hugo Face to face Copy Share Image
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. — Victor Hugo Building Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.” — Victor Hugo Animals Copy Share Image
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. — Victor Hugo Life 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 Psychology Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
“And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an impression with which the modern one can no longer furnish you,… — Victor Hugo Beyond the horizon Copy Share Image
“Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call… — Victor Hugo First place Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for oureselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Faith 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 Fear Copy Share Image
“winter always carries with it something of our sadness; then April came, that daybreak of summer, fresh like every dawn, gay like… — Victor Hugo Good morning Copy Share Image
“One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by lightning.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Najveća sreća života je ubeđenje da smo voljeni zbog nas samih, ili još bolje, uprkos nas samih.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with… — Victor Hugo Beauty 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 Eye Copy Share Image
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of… — Victor Hugo Cannonballs Copy Share Image
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. — Victor Hugo Boat Copy Share Image
“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond… — Victor Hugo Broken Copy Share Image
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this,… — Victor Hugo Expression Copy Share Image
“On s'en va parce qu'on a besoin de distraction et l'on revient parce qu'on a besoin de bonheur.” — Victor Hugo Bonheur Copy Share Image
“The soul gropes in search of a soul, and finds it. And that soul, found and proven, is a woman. A hand… — Victor Hugo Left alone 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