Victor Hugo Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Men, Sea

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.58, Wordsworth Editions

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Nature, Garden

• Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

  Victor Hugo

  Mountain, Building, Century

  Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.63, Oxford University Press, UK

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

• So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

  Victor Hugo

  Anger, Voice, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics

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