Victor Hugo Quotes

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Victor Hugo

Profession : Author

Birth : February 26, 1802

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Victor Hugo

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.

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

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo