Victor Hugo Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• "Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Animal, Risk

  "The Man Who Laughs: L'Homme Qui Rit".

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Birds Wings, Knowing

• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Animal, Men

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, Sometimes

• All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Sea, Land

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Animal, Men

• In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, World

• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

  Victor Hugo

  Depressing, Struggle, Eye

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

• I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Kindness, Believe

• In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Animal, Ethics

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Eye, Animal

• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Eye

• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

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

• The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Parent, Young

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.89, Library of Alexandria

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