FastSaying

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.


Victor Hugo

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, w...
VICTOR HUGO Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the thing...
THEODOR ADORNO Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.
UNKNOWN No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSON One who serves the Lord obtains the fruits of his rewards, all of his hunger is satisfied. Nanak is ...
GURU GOBIND SINGH He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
IRISH SAYINGS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.
ASHWIN SANGHI Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?
PATTI SMITH There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything... He who seeks the Fat...
GEORGE MACDONALD A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his me...
FREDERICK W. SMITH Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who ...
REBECCA MANLEY PIPPERT I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO Read in the name of your Lord Who created. He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Hon...
ANONYMOUS He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shal...
MOSHE SAFDIE The richest man is not he who has the most but he who needs the least.
GERMAN MUHLENBERG He is convinced he will get a fair trial. He has motive to come back here and clear his name. Mr. Mc...
JEFFERY ROBINSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. One who obtains the Sublime Essence of the Lord is satisfied and fulfilled. One who obtains this Fla...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind...
ROBERT HAMILL As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.
NICK FROST The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend and saves for those who will bury him.
VIKRANT PARSAI He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but...
VIKRANT PARSAI *Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!
RUSSELL T. DAVIES Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Scotty and his wife were going to give him a middle name after the person who scored the winning goa...
DON MCKEE O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would nev...
SUZY KASSEM He who seeks truth, shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty, shall find vanity. He who seeks order, s...
MOSHE SAFDIE Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Albert Einstein is not a name that defines greatness, rather a name for a man who was so great that ...
THUTHULA NAMHLA DLEPU We want players who don't give up. We want players who sacrifice everything for the name on the fron...
RYAN JONES Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's f...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
SIR JOHN DENHAM How is one bound, and how is one freed of his bonds? How can one escape from the cycle of coming and...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.
PHILIP K. DICK I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was fee...
KEVIN BROCKMEIER Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one name...
RUSSELL M. NELSON He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
DAVID HILBERT We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling s...
WARREN BUFFETT A child who is content for the peace he has at home is the real fortunate one compare to the child w...
JONATHAN CHEN I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
STEVEN MOFFAT A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my n...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's a pity. I don't know who he is to you... But you are disgusting. To claim you fight for his hon...
CHARLES LEE We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t...
CHIEF SEATTLE Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE I think Mr. Gray needs to have his name cleared or have the allegations put to bed,
ROBERT PHILLIPS A great majority of people like only a person who is not in the elements of his own not one who is t...
ANUJ SOMANY Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is ...
G. K. CHESTERTON He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself
CHINESE PROVERBS The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS He alone is a devotee, who looks alike upon pleasure and pain, he is imbued with the Name of the Lor...
GURU NANAK Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most ...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confid...
THEODORE J. KACZYNSKI A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight.
MISSIONARIES WHO LOVE THE ARAB WORLD Abiding time is extravagant daily time with Jesus. This extravagant time is the center of abiding. N...
MISSIONARIES WHO LOVE THE ARAB WORLD Men and women of God through the centuries have lived out this abiding truth. There are no heroes of...
MISSIONARIES WHO LOVE THE ARAB WORLD An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He who wants to safeguard His liberty, needs not only to shield His own, but He must shield His enem...
ANTHONY I. LANE Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]
One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor...
JAMES GOSS I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh...
STEVEN MOFFAT The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put...
STEVEN MOFFAT It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.
STEVEN MOFFAT Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir.
The Doctor: Ah, there you ar...
STEVEN MOFFAT There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
STEVEN MOFFAT Geronimo!
STEVEN MOFFAT You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.
STEVEN MOFFAT It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost defin...
JAMES GOSS Anyone who dies with more than $1.15 to his name is a jerk.
ERROL FLYNN He indeed shall be successful who purifies himself, / And magnifies the name of his Lord and prays.
QURAN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. This is a proud moment for all of us who love the CBS name, and who know the storied history of CBS ...
LES MOONVES

More Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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 A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...
VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
VICTOR HUGO It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
VICTOR HUGO What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO