More Quotes by Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
