163 Quotations by Victor Hugo
- 1. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
- 2. A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo ...
- 3. A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
- 4. A library implies an act of faith.
- 5. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisi ...
- 6. A man's philosophy is the bed he lies on.
- 7. A right is not to be treated as a favor.
- 8. A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover ...
- 9. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- 10. Age is no threat to the great men of the mind: with the Dantes and the Michelangelos, to grow older ...
- 11. An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
- 12. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- 13. As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
- 14. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminish ...
- 15. Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all ...
- 16. Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneat ...
- 17. Can you not see that to decide to do nothing is the most wretched of all decisions?
- 18. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body, the soul is ...
- 19. Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.
- 20. Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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