Quote

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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
Rest
Seems
Great
Men
Disproportion
Smallness
Smaller

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
Victor Hugo
Image
These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
Victor Hugo
Image
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
Victor Hugo
Image
Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
Victor Hugo
Image
Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
Victor Hugo
Image
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor Hugo
Image
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
Image
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
Victor Hugo
Image
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
Victor Hugo
Image
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Victor Hugo
Image
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
Victor Hugo
Image
In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
Victor Hugo
Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
Victor Hugo
Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
Victor Hugo
Image
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor Hugo
Image
He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo
Image
What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
Victor Hugo
Image
Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
Victor Hugo
Image
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo