By : Victor Hugo 0 Likes
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
By : Victor Hugo
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
By : Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
By : Victor Hugo
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.
By : Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
By : Victor Hugo
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
By : Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
By : Victor Hugo