Victor Hugo Quotes

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Victor Hugo

Art Nature Men

Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”

5080
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Victor Hugo

Happiness Smile Laughter

3812
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.

Victor Hugo

Love Stars Men

1912
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Victor Hugo

Men Sight Long

3328
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

Victor Hugo

Men Excellence Upright Man

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

994
As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Victor Hugo

Mind Pity Should

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

4404
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom Deeds Masters

Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”

4893
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Victor Hugo

Beauty Art Dear God

805
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

Victor Hugo

Garden Names Two

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

366
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Strength Time Powerful

3306
This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

Victor Hugo

Book Reading Men

3481
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Victor Hugo

Moving Idols Dollars

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.81, Wildside Press LLC

4722
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

Victor Hugo

Sacrifice Generations Earth

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

3293
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Victor Hugo

Dream White Order

Victor Hugo (18??). “Les miserables. Pt. 1”

1354
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

Victor Hugo

Dream Angel Men

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

815
And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

Victor Hugo

Country Reality Men

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.415, Wordsworth Editions

1761
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Victor Hugo

Les Mis Study Les Miserable

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

2773
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

Victor Hugo

Beautiful Women Pretty Woman

Victor Hugo, John Manson (2001). “The Alps and Pyrenees”, p.94, The Minerva Group, Inc.

3162
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Victor Hugo

Life Leadership Waste

215
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

Victor Hugo

Sleep Bed Supper

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

3195
To learn to read is to light a fire.

Victor Hugo

Fire Light

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

2308
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

Beauty Nature Garden

3506
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

Victor Hugo

Two Blades Edges

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

4762
Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

Victor Hugo

Dark Depth Earth

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.292, My Ebook Publishing House

3845
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Victor Hugo

Atheist Powerful Believe

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1176, BookCaps Study Guides

2032
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom Insult Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

412
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

Victor Hugo

Eye Men Should

Victor Hugo (2015). “Ninety-Three: Works Of Hugo”, p.359, 谷月社

3263
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

Past Reign Chance

"Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

3126
Monastic incarceration is castration.

Victor Hugo

Castration Incarceration

Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.130

4797
O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

Victor Hugo

Angel Night Sky

3767

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Victor Hugo quotes about: Adversity Affection Affirmations Age Aging Angels Animals Appearance Architecture Army Art Atheism Attitude Beauty Belief Birds Birthdays Blindness Books Boredom Brothers Business Cats Character Charity Children Christ Civil War Compassion Compliments Conscience Contemplation Cooking Country Courage Creation Crime Criticism Curiosity Darkness Death Death Penalty Desire Destiny Determination Devil Diamonds Dignity Drama Dreams Duty Dying Earth Education Effort Emotions Enemies Epic Eternity Evil Eyes Faith Fame Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Fighting Flight Flowers Food Friendship Funny Gardens Genius Giving Glory Goals God Goodness Grace Greatness Grief Growth Habits Happiness Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Heart Heaven Hell Hills History Honesty Honor Horses House Human Nature Humanity Hunger Hurt Hypocrisy Idleness Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Intelligence Jesus Jesus Christ Joy Judging Justice Killing Kindness Kissing Labor Labour Language Laughter Learning Liberty Life Literature Lost Love Love Lying Mankind Memories Morning Mothers Mountain Mourning Music Nature Old Age Opportunity Pain Passion Past Peace Performing Philosophy Planning Pleasure Positive Poverty Prayer Prejudice Prisons Progress Prosperity Quality Reality Reflection Religion Revolution Risk Romantic Love Running Sacrifice Saints School Science Silence Sin Singing Slavery Slaves Sleep Society Solitude Son Songs Sorrow Soul Spring Strength Struggle Study Stupidity Style Suffering Sunrise Sunshine Teachers Tigers Time Torture True Love Truth Twilight Tyranny Universe Virtue Vision Wall War Water Wealth Wine Winter Wisdom Writing Youth

Victor Hugo

Born: February 26, 1802
Died: May 22, 1885
Occupation: Poet

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