Victor Hugo Quotes

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring."

"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior 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."

"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."

"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life."

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

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

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."

"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."