Victor Hugo Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, War, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”

• Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Men, Bully

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.577, Modern Library

• 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

• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

• 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

• He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

  Victor Hugo

  Son, Gentleman, Desert

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