Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. — Victor Hugo Boldness Copy Share Image
Yes, God made man first, but there's always a rough draft before the final copy. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul. — Victor Hugo Kissing Copy Share Image
“Ballast yourself with reality and throw yourself into the sea . The sea is inspiration .” — Victor Hugo Inspiration Copy Share Image
“A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world. — Victor Hugo Europe Copy Share Image
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke." Les Miserables — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been… — Victor Hugo Human race Copy Share Image
“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.” — Víctor Hugo Revolution Copy Share Image
“It would seem that this is a great crime, of which they are all guilty. How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself,… — Victor Hugo Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
“Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies,… — Victor Hugo Greatness Copy Share Image
“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds… — Victor Hugo Fulfilment Copy Share Image
“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend… — Victor Hugo Bitterness Copy Share Image
“Man has a body which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it along, and yields to it. ‘He… — Victor Hugo Prayer Copy Share Image
“To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the… — Victor Hugo Existentialism Copy Share Image
“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
