Best Victor Hugo Quotations
- Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. Building
- Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most. Bend
- Popularity? It's glory's small change. Change
- Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. All
- Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. Become Necessary
- In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. Among
- No one can keep a secret better than a child. Better
- Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of… Confuse
- Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. Dropping
- Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict… All
- The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. God
- Those who live are those who fight. Fight
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Echo
- Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing. Funny
- There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths. Complete
- We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. Giants
- To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. Balance
- The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. All
- There shall be no slavery of the mind. Inspirational
- It's often our best friends who make us fall Best
- With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How… Bad
- Freedom begins where it ends ignorance. Begins
- My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and… All
- I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. Chateaubriand
- I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first… Century
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