Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

The only thing I command is respect.