More Quotes by Victor Hugo
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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 great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.