1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam,” Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it.

Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people dare say nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than the great shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don’t see that?

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real.