Quote of Victor Hugo - Joy's smile is much closer to...

Biography - Victor Hugo:

French writer, poet and dramatist.
Born: 1802 - Died: 1885
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Quote

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo

Quotes for: laughter:

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere

The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Katherine Mansfield

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
Richard Phillips Feynman

A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Charlie Chaplin

To laugh is proper to man.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Quotes for: joy:

I dare to believe that inner joy has some secret power to win the favour of fortune.”
René Descartes - Correspondance avec Élisabeth

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein

A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.”
Albert Einstein

Joy is the transition of man from a less to a greater perfection.”
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human

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Quotes for: smile:

A smile is often the most essential thing. One is repaid by a smile. One is rewarded by a smile. One is animated by a smile.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.”
Abbé Pierre

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
Mark Twain

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Victor Hugo also said...

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo

Hide your life and spread your spirit.”
Victor Hugo - Les rayons et les ombres

Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.”
Victor Hugo

How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.”
Victor Hugo

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Music is noise that thinks.”
Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Victor Hugo

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