Victor Hugo Quotes
- No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
- For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
- I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by…
- There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
- If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
- God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
- A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.
- If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
- Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
- Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the…
- Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
- The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
- I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed…
- God was bored by him.
- When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
- How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
- An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
- Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
- I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.