Quotes about Men
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
— Victor Hugo
But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
— Victor Hugo
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.
— Victor Hugo
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
— Victor Hugo
The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
— Victor Hugo
The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.
— Victor Hugo
to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it.
— Victor Hugo
Alas! that was the greatest of sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the final step to be taken, but he must do it. Mournful destiny! he could only enter into the sanctity in the eyes of God, by returning into infamy in the eyes of men!
— Victor Hugo
The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?
— Victor Hugo