Home » Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1 I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. Victor Hugo Second, Like Add to Collection 2 I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! Victor Hugo Art, Myself, Soul Add to Collection 3 The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. Victor Hugo Evil, Thoughts, Never Add to Collection 4 It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. Victor Hugo End, France, Kings Add to Collection 5 A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. Victor Hugo Dignity, Master, Person Add to Collection 6 The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. Victor Hugo Women, Man, Great Add to Collection 7 Despotism is a long crime. Victor Hugo Long, Crime, Despotism Add to Collection 8 The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. Victor Hugo People, Stone, Kings Add to Collection 9 One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' Victor Hugo Life, Sometimes, Bored Add to Collection 10 Genius: the superhuman in man. Victor Hugo Man, Genius, Superhuman Add to Collection 11 Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. Victor Hugo Idleness, Heaviest Add to Collection 12 Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. Victor Hugo Man, Intelligence, Action Add to Collection 13 The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo Man, Ideas, Genius Add to Collection 14 Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. Victor Hugo God, Reason, Way Add to Collection 15 Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. Victor Hugo Family, Freedom, Liberty Add to Collection 16 I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. Victor Hugo Love, Myself, Men Add to Collection 17 There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. Victor Hugo Great, Man, Great Man Add to Collection 18 A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Victor Hugo Soul, Talent, Real Add to Collection 19 When liberty returns, I will return. Victor Hugo Liberty, Return, Will Add to Collection 20 I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. Victor Hugo River, Intelligent Add to Collection 21 What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. Victor Hugo Done, English, French Add to Collection 22 The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. Victor Hugo God, Word, Verb Add to Collection 23 Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. Victor Hugo Eyes, World, Night Add to Collection 24 My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. Victor Hugo Age, Man, Childhood Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
