Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
- Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
- As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
- Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
- I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Best Quotes
- We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Power never defeated nor protected anybody; it's an act of courage and fear, nothing else.
- Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.