I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo Human nature Copy Share Image
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“La tempestad es un pulmón que agrega sin cesar lúgubres agravaciones a lo que ya no tiene matiz, a lo negro.” — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Ashamed Copy Share Image
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had… — Victor Hugo Age Copy Share Image
“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because… — Victor Hugo Humour Copy Share Image
“and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare… The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before… — Victor Hugo Bible Copy Share Image
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him:… — Victor Hugo Bishop Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of… — Victor Hugo Butterfly Copy Share Image
“two principal problems. First problem: To produce wealth. Second problem: To distribute it… England solves the first of these two problems. She… — Victor Hugo Money Copy Share Image
“Quasimodo then lifted his eye to look upon the gypsy girl, whose body, suspended from the gibbet, he beheld quivering afar, under… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he… — Victor Hugo Philosophy of life Copy Share Image
“principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
![“two principal problems. First problem: To produce wealth. Second problem: To distribute it… England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth wonderfully; she distributes it badly… [she has] a grandeur ill constituted, in which all the material elements are combined, and into…” quote by Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/758/victor-hugo-32_money_two-principal-problems-first-problem-to_1033325.jpg)
