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
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
Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
Victor Hugo
Image
A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
Victor Hugo
Image
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
Victor Hugo
Image
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Victor Hugo
Image
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
Victor Hugo
Image
The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
Victor Hugo
Image
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
Victor Hugo
Image
He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
Victor Hugo
Image
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Victor Hugo
Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
Victor Hugo
Image
Progress is the stride of God.
Victor Hugo
Image
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
Image
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
Victor Hugo
Image
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
Victor Hugo
Image
...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
Victor Hugo
Image
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
Victor Hugo
Image
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Victor Hugo
Image
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
Image
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
Victor Hugo