There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Admire Copy Share Image
“The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Fate, with its mysterious and inexorable patience, was slowly bringing together these two beings charged, like thunder-clouds, with electricity, with the latent… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great… — Victor Hugo Century Copy Share Image
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance,… — Victor Hugo Bigotry Copy Share Image
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — Victor Hugo Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
“In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. — Victor Hugo Battlefields 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
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo Desire Copy Share Image
“to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire… — Victor Hugo Conquer the world Copy Share Image
“The faults of women, children and servants,' he said, 'and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give. — Victor Hugo Giving Copy Share Image
“He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. "The faults of women, children, and servants,"… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“My friends, remember this: There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators.” — Victor Hugo Inspirational 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
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
