Victor Hugo Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• 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

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

• Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Rome, Tyrants

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

• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

  Victor Hugo

  Honor, Gold, Fool

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

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