« All Thing Quotes · Victor Hugo's Page
Thing Quotes by Victor Hugo
- A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished…
- 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…
- 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…
- The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have…
- Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647;…
- What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.
- Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
- Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
- Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
- When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
- What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
- There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
- Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the…
- There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us…
- To think of shadows is a serious thing.
- There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of…
- Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints…
- It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the…
- You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
- There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see…
- I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs…
- Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
- There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
- Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
- A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
More Thing Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- 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
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong