"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
― Victor Hugo
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Victor Hugo
- "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."
- "We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
- "Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach."
More In Beauty
- "I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."― George Byron
- "Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."― Andre Gide
- "What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."― Joseph Brodsky