Famous Quotes

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

Victor Hugo on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Victor Hugo

• "Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age."

• "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

• "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."

• "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

• "I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"