Quote

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

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
Reduces
Blocked
Roads
Answer
Answers
Philosophy
Word
Everything

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
Victor Hugo
Image
A republic may be called the climate of civilization.
Victor Hugo
Image
People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Victor Hugo
Image
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
Victor Hugo
Image
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
Victor Hugo
Image
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
Image
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
Image
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
Victor Hugo
Image
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
Victor Hugo
Image
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
Image
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
Victor Hugo
Image
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor Hugo
Image
The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.
Victor Hugo
Image
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
Victor Hugo
Image
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Victor Hugo
Image
God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo
Image
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
Victor Hugo
Image
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
Victor Hugo