Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image ““It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.”” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You can’t count a hundred years on your own, of course. But there are two of us. If we each count fifty years, then… — Takuya Asakura Copy Share Image
“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Days and months are travellers of eternity. So too the years that pass by” — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Boy to his dying grampa: "I am a century wide. I think that I have my literal age but am surrounded in a radius… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. The rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward” — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
