Victor Hugo Quotes

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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When liberty returns, I will return.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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