His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart. Victor Hugo boiling-overacceptingtears God made only water, but man made wine. Victor Hugo winefoodmen Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. Victor Hugo wisdomwittyfunny I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. Victor Hugo religiousprayerbelieve A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. Victor Hugo heroismmadnessideas Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. Victor Hugo humanitybeautyreligion No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. Victor Hugo gentlewisdomknows Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. Victor Hugo les-miswisdomlife Knowledge is a weight added to conscience. Victor Hugo conscienceweightwisdom We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination. Victor Hugo horseeyeexpression A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. Victor Hugo marchmovementdoe Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work." Victor Hugo springsongdrama Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows. Victor Hugo turkishgrowsgrass A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas. Victor Hugo seaeuropecountry When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo politicspoliticalwisdom To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. Victor Hugo err-is-humanparishumans I write with one hand, but I fight with both. Victor Hugo fightingwritinghands O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being. Victor Hugo angelskynight Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. Victor Hugo brotherevilmen Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. Victor Hugo love-youhearttrying
