More Quotes by Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
