Home » Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1 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 2 A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. Victor Hugo Soul, Talent, Real Add to Collection 3 When liberty returns, I will return. Victor Hugo Liberty, Return, Will Add to Collection 4 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 5 What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. Victor Hugo Done, English, French Add to Collection 6 The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. Victor Hugo God, Word, Verb Add to Collection 7 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 8 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 9 Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. Victor Hugo Ignorance, Prayer, August Add to Collection 10 One believes others will do what he will do to himself. Victor Hugo Others, Will, Himself Add to Collection 11 There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. Victor Hugo Nature, Rules, Laws Add to Collection 12 Conscience is God present in man. Victor Hugo God, Man, Conscience Add to Collection 13 To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. Victor Hugo God, Think, Striving Add to Collection 14 When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. Victor Hugo Art, Age, Man Add to Collection 15 Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. Victor Hugo History, Good, Great Add to Collection 16 The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. Victor Hugo Beautiful, Ugly, Thousand Add to Collection 17 I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. Victor Hugo Second, Like Add to Collection 18 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 19 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 20 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 21 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 22 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 23 Despotism is a long crime. Victor Hugo Long, Crime, Despotism Add to Collection 24 The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. Victor Hugo People, Stone, Kings Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
