Quotes By Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Conscience is God present in man.

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

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.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

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

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.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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.

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

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

When liberty returns, I will return.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.