1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

A wedding is not house-keeping.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

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

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.