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Letter "V" » Victor Hugo Quotes
«Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.»
«Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
grander, microscope, microscopes, telescope, telescopes, The Microscope
«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.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
architecture, Great Books, human race, Human thought, ideas, in that, not only, page, race, recorded, religious, Religious symbol, symbol, The Great, The Records, vast, Vaster, vastest
«Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adversity
| Keywords:
adversity, monsters, prosperity
«One can dream of something more terrible than a hell where one suffers; it's a hell where one would get bored.»
«Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.»
«England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
And One, England, Shakespeare, The Bible
«A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.»
«There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, extinguisher, The Teacher, torch, torches, village
«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.»
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