Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud. Victor Hugo More Quotes by Victor Hugo More Quotes From Victor Hugo A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. Victor Hugo pistolstriggersmen England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. Victor Hugo bibletwobook There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo graduationinspirationallife He does not weep who does not see. Victor Hugo weepingcrydoe The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. Victor Hugo paving-the-waykingspeople Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom. Victor Hugo boredomwisdomblessing Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo natureheartspring My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace! Victor Hugo revengeeuropecountry All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo powerfulstrengthtime Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo wisdomprayergod To learn to read is to light a fire. Victor Hugo lightfire I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart? Victor Hugo strongkindnessbelieve Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. Victor Hugo eyeseamen It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she. Victor Hugo threeknowsletters Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo strengthtimeinspirational True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. Victor Hugo destinyimportantmen I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. Victor Hugo selfmenthinking Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. Victor Hugo pleasure-and-happinessbeing-sadmelancholy Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo being-sadmelancholysad Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you. Victor Hugo love-yougoodbyebelieve
