Victor Hugo Quotes

They talk like angels but they live like men.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The devil is an angel too.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Pure by impure is not seen.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.