Victor Hugo Quotes

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Success has always been a great liar.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear. That's unfair to me and unfair to all of my accomplishments.

We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.

Things are not always as they seem.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.