Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo

Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Victor Hugo

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Charles Caleb Colton

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

Scott Turow

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.