Quotes about Influence
His presence soon restored confidence.
— Ulysses S. Grant
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
— Victor Hugo
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
— Victor Hugo
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
— Victor Hugo
I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.
— Victor Hugo
Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
— Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
— Victor Hugo
The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
— Victor Hugo
All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.
— Victor Hugo
To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.
— Victor Hugo