Victor Hugo
45 quotations
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
We are the children of our own deeds.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Liberation is not deliverance.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
A library implies an act of faith.
Those who live are those who fight.
Life is a voyage.
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Popularity? It's glory's small change.