More Quotes by Victor Hugo
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.
Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
In its printed form, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, irresistible, indestructible.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
