Victor Hugo: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 12)

“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.”

“The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.”

“The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.”

“Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.”

“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”

“Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)”

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

“To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.”

“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?”

“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”

“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”

“Reality in strong doses frightens.”

“The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.”

“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”

“Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.”

“All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.”

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come”