Best Victor Hugo Sayings
- Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.… Brutalizes
- God made the water but men made the wine. God
- What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! Death Penalty
- France lost a great novel last night. France
- Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by… Axe
- I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come… Action
- A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. Become Fixed
- To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to… Bad
- The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and… Antiquity
- Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… Been
- Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. Alphabet
- We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… Affliction
- Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… Absence
- In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who… Aim
- Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort… Alive
- The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,… Advance
- Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with… Armed
- So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If… Anger Management
- Progress is the stride of God. God
- We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and… Among
- The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of… Accepted
- Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… Blessing
- If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. Height
- There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. Boredom
- A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… Abnegation
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