127 Quotes By Victor Hugo


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 great

A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo on great

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 on great

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo on great

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 great

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo on great

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor Hugo on great

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Victor Hugo on great

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo on great

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 happiness

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

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

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo on happiness

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo on happiness

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

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 history

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

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo on imagination

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo on inspirational

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo on intelligence