Victor Hugo's Quotes

Victor Hugo's Quotes 193

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that...

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an...

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where...

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above...

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile...

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment...

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ;...

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of...

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in...

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the...

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be...

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that...

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the...

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