Victor Hugo People Quotations

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.