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.

Quotern

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.

-- Victor Hugo

Copy

Recommended for You ...

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

-- Victor Hugo

Copy Detail

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

-- Victor Hugo

Copy Detail

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. –

-- Victor Hugo

Copy Detail

Every bad institution of this world ends with suicide.

-- Victor Hugo

Copy Detail

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

Copy Detail