Quotes by Victor Marie Hugo
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
To love is to act.
In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Music
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
A HOUSE is built of logs and stone, Of piles and post and piers; A HOME is built of loving deeds, That stand a thousand years.
To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
