More Quotes by Victor Hugo
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
To them the idea of man is inseparable from the idea of shade. The night is called sorgue; man, orgue. Man is a derivative of night.