Victor Hugo Quotes About Harmony

Quotes about: Harmony

• To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Balance, Harmony

  "Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

• Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, Discovery, Civilization

• Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Sky, Bird

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3116, Delphi Classics

• The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Makeup, Men

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12466, Delphi Classics

• God in his harmony has equal ends
  For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
  For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
  Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
  And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
  With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
  The somber human troop.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Women, School

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

• For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Poetry, Harmony

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12470, Delphi Classics

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