Quote

A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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
Made
Invasion
Army
Stand
Idea
Ideas

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
Image
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Victor Hugo
Image
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Image
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
Victor Hugo
Image
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
Victor Hugo
Image
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
Victor Hugo
Image
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
Victor Hugo
Image
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Victor Hugo
Image
Are you afraid of the good you might do?
Victor Hugo
Image
He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor Hugo
Image
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are things stronger than the strongest man.
Victor Hugo
Image
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
Victor Hugo
Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
Victor Hugo
Image
Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
Victor Hugo
Image
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
Victor Hugo