Logo
Quote by Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great t

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

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. – Victor Hugo

Category:
thanksgiving
Author
Victor Hugo
Read Quote

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

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

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
great

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. – Logan P. Smith

Category:
great

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. – Ray Bradbury

Category:
great

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
great

Random Quotes

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business. – Terry McAuliffe

Category:
Politics

Regarding the Boy Scouts, Im very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook – George Carlin

Category:
Boy Scouts of America

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. – Bill Forsyth

Category:
Humor

I was not particularly bright, I wasnt very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid. – Uma Thurman

Category:
funny