Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty are battlefields that have their heroes.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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As short as life is, we make it even shorter through the foolish waste of time.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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He who denies progress is impious; he who denies progress denies providence, for providence and progress are the same thing, and progress is nothing more than one of the human names of the Eternal God.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Women play with their beauty like children with a knife, and they hurt themselves.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Saving civilization is saving the life of a people.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Those who suffer because they love: love even more; to die of love is to live.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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The dream of the hero is to be great everywhere and small next to his father.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Insurrection is the outburst of fury of truth. Sometimes insurrection is resurrection.