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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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More quotes by Victor Hugo
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
Victor Hugo
France lost a great novel last night.
Victor Hugo
Do not economize on the hymeneal rites do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.
Victor Hugo
The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
Victor Hugo
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
Victor Hugo
Joy is the reflex of terror.
Victor Hugo
He who despairs is wrong.
Victor Hugo
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Victor Hugo
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo
Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
Victor Hugo
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo
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
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
Victor Hugo
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
Victor Hugo
The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
Victor Hugo
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Victor Hugo
