Victor Hugo Quotes

Author Image

Victor Hugo

Profession : Author

Birth : February 26, 1802

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Victor Hugo

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

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

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Victor Hugo

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Victor Hugo

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Victor Hugo

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Victor Hugo

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Victor Hugo

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Victor Hugo

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

Victor Hugo

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

Victor Hugo