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Quotes from Victor Hugo

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
~ Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
~ Victor Hugo
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel
~ Victor Hugo
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
~ Victor Hugo
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
~ Victor Hugo
There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
~ Victor Hugo
Progress - the stride of God!
~ Victor Hugo
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
~ Victor Hugo
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
~ Victor Hugo
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
~ Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.
~ Victor Hugo
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~ Victor Hugo
Toleration is the best religion.
~ Victor Hugo
Those who live are those who fight.
~ Victor Hugo
The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
~ Victor Hugo
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
~ Victor Hugo
Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
~ Victor Hugo
A wedding is not house-keeping.
~ Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
~ 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
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
~ Victor Hugo
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
~ Victor Hugo
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
~ Victor Hugo
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
~ Victor Hugo