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Beautiful Quotes by Victor Hugo
- A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in...
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
- It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
- To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
- The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
- Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
- The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
- The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.
- The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan,…
- The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire…
- Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in…
- Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
- Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee…
- The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman