Victor Hugo Quotes

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Victor Hugo

Profession : Author

Birth : February 26, 1802

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Victor Hugo

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Victor Hugo

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!

Victor Hugo

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Victor Hugo

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Victor Hugo

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

Victor Hugo

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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

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

Victor Hugo

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Victor Hugo

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Victor Hugo

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo

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.

Victor Hugo

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo