Quotes from Victor Hugo
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with the one is wounded with the other.
- Victor Hugo
Some odd things were found; among other things the skeleton of an ourang-outang which disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with the famous and incontestable appearance of the devil in the Rue des Bernardins in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil finally drowned himself in the sewer.
- Victor Hugo
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.
- Victor Hugo
It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.
- Victor Hugo
He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went to sleep with it on his lips. I feel her whole soul in it! he exclaimed. The handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply dropped it from his pocket.
- Victor Hugo
By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.
- Victor Hugo
There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light
- Victor Hugo
God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.
- Victor Hugo
The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.
- Victor Hugo
what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.
- Victor Hugo
To dare; that is the price of progress.
- Victor Hugo
A man's eye reveals his quality. It shows how much of a man there is within us. We declare ourselves by the light that gleams under our eyebrows. Petty spirits merely wink; great spirits emit a flash of lightning.
- Victor Hugo