Quotes by Victor Hugo

“We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.”

“Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor”

“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”

“My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.”

“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”

“Loving is half of believing.”

“Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art”

“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”

“Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of”

“Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrows dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.”

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”

“Absence makes thy heart grow fonder - of somebody; else”

“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old Decembers bareness everywhere!”

“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.”

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”

“Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.”

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

“For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.”

“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”