Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 22

• A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ideas, Mind

  Victor Hugo's ppening address to the Peace Congress in Paris, August 21, 1849.

  8 Copy quote

• Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

  Victor Hugo

  Blow, Blood, Tears

  8 Copy quote

• How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

  Victor Hugo

  Hypocrisy, Frightened

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.13, Modern Library

  9 Copy quote

• The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Bird, Soul

  11 Copy quote

• Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Blades, Edges

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

  4 Copy quote

• God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, God Bless, Bless

  9 Copy quote

• Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

  Victor Hugo

  War, Struggle, Hypocrisy

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

  9 Copy quote

• And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Girl, Men

  "Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)".

  24 Copy quote

• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Flesh

  11 Copy quote

• Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, May, Irritated

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

  4 Copy quote

• I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Prayer, Believe

  10 Copy quote

• Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

  Victor Hugo

  Faith, Confidence, Health

  89 Copy quote

• Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

  Victor Hugo

  Charity, Possession, Wells

  8 Copy quote

• When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Forever, Heaven

  8 Copy quote

• I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Prayer, Believe

  6 Copy quote

• Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

  Victor Hugo

  God, Fall, Winning

  "The Hamilton Speaker (The Battle of Waterloo)". Book edited by Oliver Ernesto Branch, 1878.

  19 Copy quote

• Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Past, Men

  Victor Hugo (1905). “Works: Les misérables; Fantine. Cosette. Marius. Saint-Denis. Jean Valjean”

  12 Copy quote

• As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

  Victor Hugo

  Prayer, Long, Sincere

  "Stop What You’re Doing and Read".

  5 Copy quote

• Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Men, Citizens

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.17

  5 Copy quote

• Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

  Victor Hugo

  World, Alphabet, Language

  7 Copy quote

• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  Victor Hugo

  Omnipotence, Evil, Effort

  "Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 1". Book by Iam A. Freeman, p. 520, March 26, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Mind, Age

  4 Copy quote

• I was dying when you came.

  Victor Hugo

  Dying

  4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Alexandre Dumas

Albert Camus

Emile Zola

Honore de Balzac

Charles Baudelaire

Jules Verne

Juliette Drouet

Gustave Flaubert