Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. – Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo
Im not a good father and theyre not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers morality in life and they were not my people any more. – Wilbur Smith