Quotes by Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Lived from: 1802 - 1885

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 26 february 1802 Died: 22 may 1885

  • The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
  • 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.
  • Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
  • Popularity? It's glory's small change.
  • Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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  • When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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  • An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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  • A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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  • Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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  • Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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  • The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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  • A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
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  • A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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  • 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.
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  • A library implies an act of faith.
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  • A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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  • Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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  • As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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  • 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.
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  • Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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  • Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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  • Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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  • Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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  • Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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  • Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
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What are the most famous quotes from Victor Hugo?

The two most famous quotes from Victor Hugo are:

  • "When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."
  • "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

When did Victor Hugo live?

Victor Hugo was born in 1802 and died in the year 1885.