127 Quotes By Victor Hugo


Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo on intelligence

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo on life

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo on life

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo on life

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo on love

To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo on love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo on love

To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo on love

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.
Victor Hugo on love

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

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo on love

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo on love

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo on men

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo on men

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo on men

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo on men

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
Victor Hugo on men

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo on men

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo on morning