Quotes by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Alive from: 1802-1885

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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  When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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  An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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  A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.

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  Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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  Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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  The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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  A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

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  A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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  A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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  A library implies an act of faith.

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  A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

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  Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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  As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

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  Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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  Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.