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Quotes from Victor Hugo

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
~ Victor Hugo
No one keeps a secret so well as a child
~ Victor Hugo
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
~ Victor Hugo
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.
~ Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
~ Victor Hugo
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.
~ Victor Hugo
Napoleon… mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.
~ Victor Hugo
Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
~ Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
~ Victor Hugo
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
~ Victor Hugo
Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
~ Victor Hugo
To rise at six, to dine at ten,To sup at six, to sleep at ten,Makes a man live for ten times ten.
~ Victor Hugo
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
~ Victor Hugo
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
~ Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
~ Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith.
~ Victor Hugo
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
~ Victor Hugo
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
~ Victor Hugo
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
~ Victor Hugo
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~ Victor Hugo
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
~ Victor Hugo
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
~ Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
~ Victor Hugo