Quotes By Victor Hugo

Top Best Quotes By Victor Hugo

1. People do not lack strength, they lack will.

2. Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

3. To love another person is to see the face of God.

4. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

5. It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

6. It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

7. Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

8. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

9. When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

10. If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

11. There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

12. Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

13. A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

14. The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.

15. You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

16. Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

17. When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

18. The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

19. All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

20. Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

21. There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

22. A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.

23. Table talk and lovers’ talk equally elude the grasp; lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

24. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

25. England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.

26. There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

27. Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?

28. To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there.

29. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

30. Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

31. The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.