Quote

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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
Little
Wolves
Every
Peasants
Believe
Killed
Would
Ones
Growing
Fear
Pups
Mother
Litter
Littles
Devour

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
Victor Hugo
Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
Victor Hugo
Image
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Victor Hugo
Image
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo
Image
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted they saw each other and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
Victor Hugo
Image
Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
Victor Hugo
Image
Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
Victor Hugo
Image
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
Victor Hugo
Image
Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
Victor Hugo
Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
Victor Hugo
Image
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
Victor Hugo
Image
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
Victor Hugo
Image
Loving is half of believing.
Victor Hugo
Image
I was dying when you came.
Victor Hugo
Image
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
Image
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo