Quote

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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
Pleasant
Commit
Action
Someone
Doe
Like
Disagreeable

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
Victor Hugo
Image
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
Victor Hugo
Image
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
Victor Hugo
Image
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
Victor Hugo
Image
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Victor Hugo
Image
The true artist can only labor con amore.
Victor Hugo
Image
I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
Victor Hugo
Image
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
Victor Hugo
Image
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
Image
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
Victor Hugo
Image
Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
Victor Hugo
Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
Image
One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Image
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
Victor Hugo
Image
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Victor Hugo
Image
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
Victor Hugo
Image
Are you afraid of the good you might do?
Victor Hugo