Quote

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.

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
Heaven
Character
Spectacle
Grand
Sea
Conscience

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
Victor Hugo
Image
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.
Victor Hugo
Image
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
Victor Hugo
Image
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
Victor Hugo
Image
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Victor Hugo
Image
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
Victor Hugo
Image
Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
Victor Hugo
Image
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
Victor Hugo
Image
They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
Victor Hugo
Image
The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
Image
A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
Victor Hugo
Image
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
Victor Hugo
Image
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.
Victor Hugo
Image
The true artist can only labor con amore.
Victor Hugo
Image
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
Victor Hugo
Image
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo