V

Victor Hugo

Explore inspiring quotes by Victor Hugo, a remarkable figure whose words continue to inspire and motivate people around the world.

117

Total Quotes

47

Categories

2

Avg. Length

god

Top Category

Top Categories by Victor Hugo

Discover the themes and topics this author explores most

god

11 quotes

great

9 quotes

love

8 quotes

time

7 quotes

men

7 quotes

beauty

5 quotes

happiness

5 quotes

nature

5 quotes

Featured Quotes by Victor Hugo

Some of the most memorable quotes from this author

"Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age."

— Victor Hugoage

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

— Victor Hugoage

"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 Hugoarchitecture

"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 Hugoart

"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"

— Victor Hugoart

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

— Victor Hugoart

All Quotes by Victor Hugo

Browse all quotes from this author

"Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age."

-Victor Hugo

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

-Victor Hugo

"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

architectureView Quote

"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

"I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!"

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

-Victor Hugo

attitudeView Quote

"To love beauty is to see light."

-Victor Hugo

beautyView Quote

"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

beautyView Quote

"What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain."

-Victor Hugo

beautyView Quote

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

-Victor Hugo

beautyView Quote

"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

beautyView Quote

"Toleration is the best religion."

-Victor Hugo

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

-Victor Hugo

changeView Quote

"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

courageView Quote

"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."

-Victor Hugo

deathView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

dreamsView Quote

"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."

-Victor Hugo

dreamsView Quote

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

-Victor Hugo

educationView Quote

"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

-Victor Hugo

educationView Quote

"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."

-Victor Hugo

faithView Quote

"A library implies an act of faith."

-Victor Hugo

faithView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

freedomView Quote

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

-Victor Hugo

funnyView Quote

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

-Victor Hugo

futureView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

futureView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

futureView Quote

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

"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

"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

"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

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

-Victor Hugo

"Conscience is God present in man."

-Victor Hugo

"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach."

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

"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

"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

"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

greatView Quote

"A great artist is a great man in a great child."

-Victor Hugo

greatView Quote

"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

greatView Quote

"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

-Victor Hugo

greatView Quote

"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

greatView Quote

"Many great actions are committed in small struggles."

-Victor Hugo

greatView Quote

"Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest."

-Victor Hugo

greatView Quote

"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

greatView Quote

"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

greatView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

happinessView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

happinessView Quote

"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."

-Victor Hugo

happinessView Quote

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

-Victor Hugo

happinessView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

happinessView Quote

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

-Victor Hugo

historyView Quote

"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

historyView Quote

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

-Victor Hugo

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."

-Victor Hugo

imaginationView Quote

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

-Victor Hugo

inspirationalView Quote

"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."

-Victor Hugo

intelligenceView Quote

"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."

-Victor Hugo

intelligenceView Quote

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

-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

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

-Victor Hugo

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

-Victor Hugo

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

-Victor Hugo

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

-Victor Hugo

"To love beauty is to see light."

-Victor Hugo

"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

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

-Victor Hugo

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness."

-Victor Hugo

"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

1 / 2

Other Authors to Explore

Explore more inspiring authors

View All Authors