Quotes from Victor Hugo
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
- Victor Hugo
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
- Victor Hugo
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
- Victor Hugo
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
- Victor Hugo
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
- Victor Hugo
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
- Victor Hugo
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.
- Victor Hugo
To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
- Victor Hugo
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
- Victor Hugo
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
- Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I doubt.
- Victor Hugo
What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
- Victor Hugo