Victor Hugo Quotes.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
When liberty returns, I will return.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
