Top 100 Hugo's Quotes
#1. In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#2. In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.
Brian Selznick
#3. The way to ascend unto God is to descend into one's self";
these are Hugo's words. "If thou wishest to search out the deep things of God, search out the depths of thine own spirit";
D.T. Suzuki
#4. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
#5. During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
Victor Hugo
#6. To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
Victor Hugo
#7. To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.
Victor Hugo
#8. Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
Victor Hugo
#9. As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.
Hugo Weaving
#10. If that's too mythical a tone
consider those who conform and know something's wrong
and need a zany few who won't obey.
Richard Hugo
#11. If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo
#12. A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
#13. At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.
Victor Hugo
#14. The claw, that's the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that's you yourself who enters into the beast. ( ... ) Beyond the terror of being eaten alive is the ineffability of being drunk alive.
Victor Hugo
#15. For it is a mistake to think that talking to one's self is not natural. Powerful emotions often speak aloud
Victor Hugo
#16. Let's go drink our beers and thumb our noses at those who would do us harm.
Hugo Pratt
#17. and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that the rhododendron was happy now.
Victor Hugo
#18. I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.
Hugo Weaving
#19. I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.
Hugo Weaving
#20. A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
Victor Hugo
#21. What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.
Hugo Chavez
#22. It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.
Hugo Ball
#23. Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chavez
#24. A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
Victor Hugo
#25. But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
Victor Hugo
#26. The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.
Victor Hugo
#27. A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo
#28. You shouldn't abuse the revolutionaries, Mother Streetcorner. My pistol is on your side. It's to help you find more things worth eating in your basket.
Victor Hugo
#29. I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
August Wilson
#30. The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.
Victor Hugo
#31. With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with his foot onto one of those poor man's pillows which Providence provides on all the street corners of Paris and which the rich disdainfully refer to as heaps of garbage.
Victor Hugo
#32. Mien identical, only more depressed. But why these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered
Victor Hugo
#33. In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.
Hugo Chavez
#35. Let's not bring flame where light is enough.
Victor Hugo
#36. When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.
Victor Hugo
#37. Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Victor Hugo
#38. Be a religion to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. I love thee! that's my catechism. He who loves is orthodox.
Victor Hugo
#39. It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
Hugo Weaving
#40. Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
Victor Hugo
#41. It's a lie! I am not an anti-Semite. The World Jewish Congress supported me and said that I am not anti-Semitic.
Hugo Chavez
#42. His only theatre is the free show that god provides, the sky and the stars, flowers and children, mankind who's sufferings he shares and the created world in which he is trying his wings
Victor Hugo
#43. People are more likely to pass me on the street without recognizing me, and that's good.
Hugo Weaving
#44. What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret.
Victor Hugo
#45. Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
Victor Hugo
#46. Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.
Hugo Chavez
#47. The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea.
The towns make men ferocious because it makes them corrupt.
Mountains, sea, and forest make men reckless. They stir the wildness of men's nature,
but do not necessarily destroy what is human
Victor Hugo
#48. That's alright," said Hugo. "I've got some wine"
Which was about all he seemed to have. He poured out two mugfuls.
"Very nice," said Adrian, sipping appreciatively. "I wonder how they got the cat to sit on the bottle."
"It's cheap, that's the main thing.
Stephen Fry
#49. He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.
Hugo Pratt
#50. But you must have a lady"s maid."
"Don't I have Marius?
Victor Hugo
#51. I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.
Hugo Ball
#52. Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.
Victor Hugo
#53. And there's a woman dressed in white, who's nice to hear, and soft to touch, and she whispers, 'Colette, I love you very much' I have a place where no one is ost, and where no one cries, because crying is not aloud, on my Castle In the Clouds
Victor Hugo
#54. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
Victor Hugo
#55. What's our baggage? Only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling lightly in your hair.
Victor Hugo
#56. Suddenly she let fly with this: "It's nice here!"
It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free.
Victor Hugo
#57. There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.
Victor Hugo
#58. It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.
Hugo Weaving
#59. That's nice! You have called me Eponine!
Victor Hugo
#60. pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre on our heads." These
Victor Hugo
#61. It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs.
Hugo Pratt
#62. Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
Victor Hugo
#63. Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
Hugo Chavez
#64. Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.
Hugo Weaving
#65. He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Victor Hugo
#66. But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.
Victor Hugo
#67. The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
Victor Hugo
#68. There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
Victor Hugo
#69. He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
Victor Hugo
#70. My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
Victor Hugo
#71. Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?
Hugo Chavez
#72. His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor Hugo
#73. Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
#74. Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
Hugo Chavez
#75. All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the loss of one's soul.
Victor Hugo
#76. I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo
#77. There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
Victor Hugo
#78. -Nobody can force you to smile, she says.
-What? I ask. But I know she's not even talking to me, only to herself, as if she's the last person left in the room.
-They can make you show your teeth, but what good is that? Nobody can make you smile against your will.
Hugo Hamilton
#79. For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.
Victor Hugo
#80. Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup!
Victor Hugo
#81. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
Hugo Chavez
#82. I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?
Hugo Chavez
#83. It's that big guy who's the government.
Victor Hugo
#84. I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
Hugo Chavez
#85. What is the true story of Fantine? It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defencelessness, destitution. A squalid bargain: a human soul for a hunk of bread. Poverty offers and society accepts.
Victor Hugo
#86. Lovers inside and horses ignoring the lovers. And the creek nearby. The willows. That was the scene. I forget the sky. The sky, let's say, was green and dotted with silly clouds that looked like dimes. Then
Richard Hugo
#87. It's not enough to abolish abuse; custom must also be transformed. The mill was pulled down, but the wind still blows.
Victor Hugo
#88. The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The
John Grisham
#89. The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius ...
Victor Hugo
#90. If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
Victor Hugo
#91. To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Victor Hugo
#92. I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.
Hugo Weaving
#93. Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
Victor Hugo
#94. Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
Victor Hugo
#95. She imagined that her mother's soul had passed into this good man and had come to live close by her.
Victor Hugo
#96. He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed
Victor Hugo
#97. The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet.
Hugo Chavez
#98. The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.
Hugo Black
#99. I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
Hugo Vihlen
#100. I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
Victor Hugo
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