Quotes By Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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.

The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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

Liberation is not deliverance.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.