Victor Hugo

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

The surpreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.

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

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Be like the bird in flight… pausing a while on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, yet sings knowing yet, that she has wings.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.

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.

Ten cytat ma więcej niż dwa języki

Jest jedna rzecz silniejsza od wszystkich armii świata: to idea której czas nadszedł.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

只要時機到了, 就算是全世界的軍隊也無法阻止 一個 信念 發揮(對人的)影響力.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Uśmiech jest jak słońce, które spędza chłód z ludzkiej twarzy.

Kochać to jedyna rzecz, mogąca zapełnić wieczność... Nieskończoność potrzebuje bezkresów.

Nie ma ważniejszego zadania, jak być miłym i pełnym uroku. Krzewić radość, promieniować szczęściem, rozlewać jasność na ciemnych drogach życia... Czyż nie jest to największa przysługa dla innych?

Przyszłość ma wiele imion. Dla słabych jest czymś nieosiągalnym. Dla bojaźliwych jest czymś nieznanym. Dla odważnych jest szansą.

Bądź jak ptak, który spocząwszy w locie swym na gałązce, chociaż ona ugina się pod jego ciężarem, nie przestaje śpiewać, bo wie, że ma skrzydła, które go, ustrzegą od zagłady.

Ten cytat ma więcej niż dwa języki

Gdyby pozostał tylko jeden, będę właśnie nim.

If only one would remain, I would be him.

Et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là.