Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
VICTOR HUGONobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
VICTOR HUGOMen hate those to whom they have to lie.
VICTOR HUGOPromise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
VICTOR HUGOTeach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
VICTOR HUGOThe pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
VICTOR HUGONothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
VICTOR HUGOWisdom is the health of the soul.
VICTOR HUGONot seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
VICTOR HUGOPeople do not lack strength, they lack will.
VICTOR HUGOThere is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGOWe pardon to the extent that we love.
VICTOR HUGOThere is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
VICTOR HUGOYou ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
VICTOR HUGOTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
VICTOR HUGOIf you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
VICTOR HUGOHe never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO