1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.