Victor Hugo Quotes, Thoughts and images

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

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

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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