Quote

All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

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
Would
Thrown
World
Sea
Waste
Instead
Suffice
Land
Wastes
Animal
Manure
Human
Nourish
Humans
Returned

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
I was dying when you came.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
Image
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
Image
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
Victor Hugo
Image
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
Victor Hugo
Image
These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
Victor Hugo
Image
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Victor Hugo
Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
Image
If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
Victor Hugo
Image
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
Victor Hugo
Image
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Victor Hugo
Image
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
Victor Hugo
Image
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Victor Hugo
Image
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo
Image
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
Image
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
Victor Hugo
Image
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Victor Hugo
Image
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Victor Hugo
Image
Loving is half of believing.
Victor Hugo