Victor Hugo quotes

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”

— Victor Hugo

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”

— Victor Hugo

“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. ”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”

— Victor Hugo

“Those who live are those who fight. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.”

— Victor Hugo

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! ”

— Victor Hugo

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ”

— Victor Hugo

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”

— Victor Hugo

“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“No one can keep a secret better than a child.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”

— Victor Hugo

“Despotism is a long crime.”

— Victor Hugo

“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”

— Victor Hugo

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”

— Victor Hugo

“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”

— Victor Hugo

“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”

— Victor Hugo

“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.”

— Victor Hugo

“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Genius: the superhuman in man.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”

— Victor Hugo

“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”

— Victor Hugo

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”

— Victor Hugo