A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
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