Victor Hugo Quotes
Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
Show MoreWhen grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invis...
Show MoreIt is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its p...
Show MoreEverything bows to success even grammar.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ...
Show MoreHope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
Show MoreTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
Show MoreSorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,G...
Show MoreMake thought a whirlwind.
Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident c...
Show MoreHow did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
Show MoreWhat would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, b...
Show MoreSi l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si mêmeIls ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor ...
Show MoreNo army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...
Show MoreProgress - the stride of God!
Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
Show MoreSon, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
Show MoreLove is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the...
Show MoreProverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
Show MoreNo one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is no...
Show MoreTall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the ...
Show MoreCaution is the eldest child of wisdom.
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather ...
Show MoreAdversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
Show MoreLaughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necess...
Show MoreWhat a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and...
Show MoreGenius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a...
Show MoreIf you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Those who live are those who fight.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
Show MoreOne day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jeal...
Show MoreIt is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading litt...
Show MoreI see black light (his last words)
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but ev...
Show MoreVerse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. ...
Show MoreA compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
Show MoreFormerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself wer...
Show MoreJoy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the templ...
Show MoreLet us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way....
Show MoreGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in...
Show MoreA writer is a world trapped in a person.
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a fri...
Show MoreBe like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneat...
Show MoreHe who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that ...
Show MorePeople do not lack strength they lack will.
You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Eve...
Show MorePeace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Deat...
Show MoreLoving is half of believing.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...
Show MoreSo bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down a...
Show MoreThe principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a though...
Show MoreDear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue ...
Show More210Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatre...
Show MoreWhat is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is...
Show MoreHabit is the nursery of errors.
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that wil...
Show MoreJesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of ...
Show MoreConcision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
Show MoreNature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was ...
Show MoreLife is a flower of which love is the honey.
