Victor Hugo

Quotes by Victor Hugo

Featured quote“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”Victor Hugo

Quotes by Victor Hugo

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.” Victor Hugo

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.” Victor Hugo

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.” Victor Hugo

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” Victor Hugo

“Those who live are those who fight.” Victor Hugo

“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.” Victor Hugo

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” Victor Hugo

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

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

Future History Past

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” Victor Hugo

Love Power Time

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” Victor Hugo

“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.” Victor Hugo

“It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.” Victor Hugo

“No one can keep a secret better than a child.” Victor Hugo

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.” Victor Hugo

“Despotism is a long crime.” Victor Hugo

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

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

“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.” Victor Hugo

Animal Man War Fact Ignorant

“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.” Victor Hugo

“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.” Victor Hugo

“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.” Victor Hugo

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

“Genius: the superhuman in man.” Victor Hugo

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

“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.” Victor Hugo

“To contemplate is to look at shadows.” Victor Hugo

“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.” Victor Hugo