1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Viața este pierderea neîntreruptă a tot ce iubim.

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.

In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.

Na verdade, se nos fosse dado penetrar com os olhos da carne na consciência dos outros, julgaríamos com mais segurança um homem pelo que devaneia do que pelo que pensa. O pensamento é absolutamente espontâneo, toma e conserva, mesmo no gigantesco e no ideal, a figura do nosso espírito. Não há coisa que mais directa e profundamente saia do fundo da nossa alma do que as nossas aspirações irreflectidas e desmesuradas para os esplendores do destino

After a pause he added: "My friends remember this:There is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man.There are only bad cultivators".

Quando la terra soffre per qualche eccesso, l'ombra ha gemiti misteriosi che l'abisso ode.

Our fathers had a Paris of stone; our children will have a Paris of plaster.

Protect the workers, encourage the rich.