Quote

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Victor Hugo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
Obey
Command
Necessary
Woman
Often
Order
Right
Sometimes

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Every good quality runs into a defect economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
Victor Hugo
Image
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
Victor Hugo
Image
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Victor Hugo
Image
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo
Image
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo
Image
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Victor Hugo
Image
I was dying when you came.
Victor Hugo
Image
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
Victor Hugo
Image
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
Victor Hugo
Image
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
Image
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
Victor Hugo
Image
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor Hugo
Image
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
Image
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
Victor Hugo
Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
Victor Hugo
Image
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo
Image
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
Victor Hugo