Famous Quotes / Victor Hugo
163 Quotations by Victor Hugo
- 61. It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
- 62. It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a h ...
- 63. It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which ...
- 64. It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the ...
- 65. Jean Valjean went out of the city as if he were escaping. He made all haste to get into the open cou ...
- 66. Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of ...
- 67. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- 68. Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar ...
- 69. Liberation is not deliverance.
- 70. Liberty suppressed is property destroyed.
- 71. Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
- 72. Life is a gift from heaven, too palpable and precious.
- 73. Life is a voyage.
- 74. Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- 75. Love is the reduction of the universe to a single being.
- 76. Loving is half of believing.
- 77. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
- 78. Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are ...
- 79. Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
- 80. Men hate those to whom they have to lie.