More Quotes by Victor Hugo
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
I think, therefore I doubt.
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?
It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf.
