Quote

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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
Good
Afraid
Might

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Victor Hugo
Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
Victor Hugo
Image
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
Image
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo
Image
Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
Victor Hugo
Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
Victor Hugo
Image
God made only water, but man made wine.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
Victor Hugo
Image
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
Victor Hugo
Image
The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
Victor Hugo
Image
Monastic incarceration is castration.
Victor Hugo
Image
Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
Victor Hugo
Image
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Victor Hugo
Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
Victor Hugo
Image
Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
Victor Hugo
Image
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
Victor Hugo
Image
He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
Victor Hugo