Logo
Quote by Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Men
Author
Victor Hugo
Read Quote

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Love
Author
Victor Hugo
Read Quote

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

Category:
great
Author
Victor Hugo
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Im so not stylish by nature, but Ive learned to work with what I have. – Julie Bowen

Category:
Nature

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. – Ovid

Category:
Nature

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. – Saint Augustine

Category:
Nature

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? – Anna Freud

Category:
Friendship

The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Chastity

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn ones living at it. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Science

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. – Heinrich Heine

Category:
News