Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 25

• I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Prayer, Believe

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• Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

  Victor Hugo

  Charity, Possession, Wells

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• I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, World, My Own

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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• He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

  Victor Hugo

  Son, Gentleman, Desert

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• Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

  Victor Hugo

  Determination, Fall, Science

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Dear God

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• Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

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• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Wings, Two

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Gentle, Knows

  Victor Hugo, Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1984). “Les Miserables”, Hippocrene Books

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• When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Forever, Heaven

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• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  Victor Hugo

  Omnipotence, Evil, Effort

  "Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages and Proverbs ..., Volume 1". Book by Iam A. Freeman, p. 520, March 26, 2014.

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• I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

  Victor Hugo

  Mistake, Eye, Direct Action

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• He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow, One Day, Details

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2050, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What's our baggage? Only vows,
  Happiness, and all our care,
  And the flower that sweetly shows
  Nestling lightly in your hair.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Flower, Hair

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

  Victor Hugo

  Forgiveness, Giving, Quality

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• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  Victor Hugo

  Intelligence, Dry, Scepticism

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• History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Men, Goal

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• A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Flower, Nebula

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.41

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• I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Kindness, Believe

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Kissing, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1031, First Avenue Editions

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• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kissing, Veils

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1169, My Ebook Publishing House

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• I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

  Victor Hugo

  Party, Europe, Civilization

  "Océan. Tas de pierres". Book by Victor Hugo, 1942.

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• Art needs no spur beyond itself.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Spurs, Needs

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• A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Europe, Sea

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