“In a revolution, nothing is more terrible than a straight line.”
Victor Hugo Quotes · Page 2
1802 – 1885
French poet and novelist, author of "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame".
48 quotesAbout Victor Hugo on Wikipedia
“He had the blind certainty of the arrow, which sees only the mark and flies to it.”
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
“The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.”
“Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.”
“Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
“Table talk and lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.”
“Mothers' arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
“A good mayor is a good thing. Are you afraid of the good you can do?”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”
“Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.”
“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”
