Victor Hugo quotes

“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”

— Victor Hugo

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”

— Victor Hugo

“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”

— Victor Hugo

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”

— Victor Hugo

“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. ”

— Victor Hugo

“ 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.”

— Victor Hugo

“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”

— Victor Hugo

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

— Victor Hugo

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right”

— Victor Hugo

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”

— Victor Hugo

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

— Victor Hugo

“I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. ”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.”

— Victor Hugo

“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. ”

— Victor Hugo

“A library implies an act of faith.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

— Victor Hugo

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”

— Victor Hugo

“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. ”

— Victor Hugo

“A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

— Victor Hugo

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future. ”

— Victor Hugo

“Habit is the nursery of errors.”

— Victor Hugo