Drama Poetry The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. - Victor Hugo
Architecture Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. - Victor Hugo
Father Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. - Victor Hugo
Mountains Men The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. - Victor Hugo
Banks I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. - Victor Hugo
Man World I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. - Mary Wortley Montagu
Man It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. - John Francis Davis
Man When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' - Karl Kraus
Man I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days. - Jacqueline Bisset