Quotes from Victor Hugo

The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

Qué triste está el alma cuando está triste por el amor! ¡Qué vacío tan inmenso es la ausencia del ser que llena el mundo! ¡Oh! ¡Cuán verdadero es que el ser amado se convierte en Dios!

Words can be liars, we must not blindly believe what they say.

It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble.

AÅŸk?n orta yolu yoktur; ya mahveder ya kurtar?r. AÅŸk, ölüm deÄŸilse hayatt?r.

We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls.

La galera fa il galeotto.

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.

Ah, the Springtime, when we think of all the lays That dreamy lovers send to dreamy mays, Of the fond hearts within a billet bound, Of all the soft silk paper that pens wound, The messages of love that mortals write Filled with intoxication of delight… — The Genesis of Butterflies

He very often said: "There is a bravery for the priest as well as a bravery for the colonel of dragoons." "Only," added he, "ours should be quiet.

Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si même Ils ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ; S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ; Et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là ! (If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even if They're just a hundred, still I face Sylla; If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth; And if there is only one left, I'll be this one!)

Mais soyons justes envers l'aristocratie. Elle a fait équilibre à la royauté; elle a été contrepoids. Elle a fait obstacle au despotisme; elle a été barrière. Remercions-la, et enterrons-la.

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, sometimes high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft and fresh vapour, which corrects the too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and blunts the sharp corners of ideas.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.