Quotes By Victor Hugo

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

To love is to act.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

A library implies an act of faith.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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