Quotes by Hugo, Victor

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of ti >>

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human >>

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath >>

Quotations about Slang

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. >>

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of t >>

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted >>

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

Hugo, Victor