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Old Quotes by Victor Hugo
- It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of…
- 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…
- And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old…
- If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
- 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…
- When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young…
- For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
- In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
- Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out…
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
- Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
- I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
- Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
- To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to…
- M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in…
- Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born…
- 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 occupied the see…
- I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I…
- Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
- What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn,…
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