Quotes
Quotes - Hugo
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.
Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake The angel for the woman in a kiss, At once I wis, My soul will wake!
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows, Far west, among those flowers of the shadows, The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her, Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer Unto the harvest of the eternal summer, Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Popularity is glory's small change.
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.)
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind.
