More Quotes by Victor Hugo
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.
If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
