Common Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image “Taste is the common sense of genius.” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common sense Genius Intelligence Taste
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing. — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in… — Henry Home, Lord Kames 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
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
