Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.
("Les Miserables")
More Quotes from Victor Hugo:
The beautiful is as useful. Perhaps more so.Victor Hugo
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
Victor Hugo
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo
Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves Who am I and who are you Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who kn
Victor Hugo
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
Victor Hugo
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Fate & Destiny Quotes, Man Quotes, Mind Quotes, Thought & Thinking QuotesBased on Keywords: adulated, caul, cleaver, lottery-prize
If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
Sarah Caldwell
Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.
Tara Strong
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift