Victor Hugo Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

“To love beauty is to see light.”

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”

“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”

“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.”

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”