Victor Hugo Quotes, Country Quotes, Fighting Quotes

Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Country Quotes , Fighting Quotes

The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , War Quotes

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Self Quotes , Atheism Quotes

Love is reducing the universe to one being.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Reducing Quotes

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes , Suffering Quotes

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Moving Quotes , Next Quotes

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 truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Science Quotes , Men Quotes

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Ugly Things Quotes

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Desire Quotes

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Stars Quotes , Distance Quotes

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Bible Quotes , Book Quotes

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Quotes , Powerful Quotes

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Children Quotes , Soul Quotes

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Rivers Quotes

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Moving Quotes , Hands Quotes

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Dawn Quotes

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Pearls Quotes , Goodness Quotes

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Stupid Quotes , People Quotes

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Spring Quotes

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 at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Love Quotes , Stars Quotes