Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image ““sake of exactness”” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He who should perceive a ‘minute’ full of perfection must work himself up to address the minutest imperfections.” — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to say something exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, because what you say can never… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” — Robert C. Martin 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
