Quote

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

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
Mystery
Stars
Impenetrable
Greater
Sweeter
Woman
Radiance
Two
Luminous
Reason
Beside
Look
Reasons
Looks
Star

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
Victor Hugo
Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
Victor Hugo
Image
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
Image
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
Victor Hugo
Image
What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
Victor Hugo
Image
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
Victor Hugo
Image
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
Victor Hugo
Image
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Victor Hugo
Image
If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
Victor Hugo
Image
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo
Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo
Image
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
Victor Hugo
Image
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
Victor Hugo
Image
In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
Victor Hugo
Image
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
Victor Hugo
Image
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
Victor Hugo
Image
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo