Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 11

• Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Men, Unknown Things

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.30, My Ebook Publishing House

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• 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

  Sleep, Men, Six

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• I see black light (his last words)

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Black, Lasts

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• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Reign, Chance

  "Sermons". Book by Hugh Blair, vol. 1, no. 16, p. 195, 1822.

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• Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, One Day, Gains

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.700, Wordsworth Editions

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• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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• These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

  Victor Hugo

  Love Is, Joy, Felicity

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Glasses, Water

  Victor Hugo, Henry Llewellen Williams (jr), Frank Thomas Marzials (1907*). “Works of Victor Hugo: Notre Dame. The last day of a condemned”

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wisdom, Live Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

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• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  Victor Hugo

  Pearls, Goodness, Wells

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• A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

  Victor Hugo

  Fall, Height

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

  Victor Hugo

  Perfect, Perfection, Lovely

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• They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Heart, Blindness

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• Morality is truth in full bloom.

  Victor Hugo

  Morality

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.451, Modern Library

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• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Strange, Speak

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Pride, Moon

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Grief, Sunshine

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.184, Wildside Press LLC

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

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Impossible, Like Me

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• Happiness wishes everybody happy.

  Victor Hugo

  Wish

  Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, James K. Robinson (2007). “Les Misérables”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

  Victor Hugo

  Break, Pens, Ifs

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• To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Paris, Soul, Breathe

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• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Hours, Clock

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• If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

  Victor Hugo

  Jesus, Christ, Pardon

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