
Victor Hugo
French writer
Lived from: 1802 - 1885
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: France
Born: 26 february 1802 Died: 22 may 1885
Quotes 21 till 40 of 78.
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England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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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.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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