Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-02-26 – 1885-05-22) is recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet.

Found 110 thoughts of Victor Hugo

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

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

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

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.

Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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