Quotes by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Lived from: 1802 - 1885

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 26 february 1802 Died: 22 may 1885

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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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