Victor Hugo: Zitate auf Englisch

Victor Hugo war französischer Poet und Autor. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“Be happy without picking flaws.”

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hugo

Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d&#x27;un Crime (1877): &quot;One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas&quot;, the wording of this famous statement actually more closely resembles a passage from the relatively obscure Les Francs-Tireurs (1861) by Gustave Aimard, p. 68 https://books.google.com/books/about/Les_francs_tireurs.html?id=mKI4AQAAIAAJ: <br class="br">Il y a quelque chose de plus puissant que la force brutale des baïonnettes: c&#x27;est l&#x27;idée dont le temps est venu et l&#x27;heure est sonnée. <br class="br">There is something more powerful than the brute force of bayonets: it is the idea whose time has come and hour struck. <br class="br">Translated into English as The Freebooters : A Story of the Texan War (1861) https://archive.org/details/freebootersstory00aima, p. 57, Ward &amp; Lock edition <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

“I was dying when you came.”

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality”

Victor Hugo buch Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame

Quelle: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Les feuilles d'automne (1831)
Variante: To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Quelle: Les Misérables

“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”

Victor Hugo buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

Victor Hugo

"Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke
Quelle: Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion