Author of quotes: Victor Hugo

However, not by much.

Hail hits, stabs, wounds, stuns, destroys, but snow flakes are worse than hail. Soft, inexorable snowflakes do their job quietly. If you touch them, they melt. Their purity is the same as the sincerity of a hypocrite. Laying down layer by layer, snowflakes grow into an avalanche; By heaping deception upon deception, the hypocrite reaches the point of crime.

Sometimes a ray of dawn or a glass of gin gives us deceptive dreams of happiness. A narrow strip of good borders a huge shroud of evil. Our fate is entirely woven by the devil, and God only hemmed the scar.

Stupidity in a person is acceptable, but it must also have boundaries. You can be rude, but you can't be a rebel.

Be a fool as much as you want, but don't set a bad example. Nothing more than good intentions is required of fools, and then they can consider themselves the support of the monarchy.

Obsequious souls cannot stand stubborn people.

Sometimes a sailor, when pulling on gear designed to control the wind, leaves one knot free so that the wind itself can pull it in. This shows the stupidity of the hurricane and the stupidity of the people.

Restoration is like a painting darkened by time and re-varnished - the whole past suddenly comes out.

Making someone a peer is a serious matter. This means creating a peerage and thereby creating envious people. This is mercy, and by showing mercy to someone, the king gains one friend and a hundred enemies, not counting the fact that the friend later turns out to be ungrateful.

A noble torso, a high chest, heaving with the even beat of a royal heart, a lively and clear gaze, pure, proud features, and there under the water, in a muddy wave - who knows? - perhaps a supernatural continuation is hidden - the flexible and ugly, terrible tail of a dragon. Unattainable virtue, hiding vicious dreams...

Depraved morals. Yes. But hypocrisy is no better than cynicism.

The girl rules over the groom, and the wife submits to her husband - this is an old English custom.

The British love for their freedom does not prevent them from putting up with the slavery of other peoples. A benevolent attitude towards the chains that bind their neighbor leads the English to enthusiastic admiration of despots.

There are roads along which you can only crawl.