Famous quotes by Authors

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Promise a lot and give even more"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Stupidity talks, vanity acts"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Nothing else in the world, not all the armies, is so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive"

Victor Hugo, Author

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, Author

Victor Hugo

"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time'"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

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