127 Quotes By Victor Hugo


A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo on faith

A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo on faith

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo on freedom

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo on funny

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo on future

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

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo on future

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

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

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

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo on god

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo on god

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 on god

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo on god

Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo on god

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo on god

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo on god

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo on god

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo on good

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo on good