89 quotes by 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

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“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

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“A great artist is a great man in a great child.” — Victor Hugo

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“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“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

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“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

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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” — Victor Hugo

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“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.” — Victor Hugo

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“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.” — Victor Hugo

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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, boldness.” — Victor Hugo

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“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

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

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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” — Victor Hugo

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“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” — Victor Hugo

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“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.” — Victor Hugo

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“Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.” — Victor Hugo

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“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.” — Victor Hugo

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“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.” — Victor Hugo

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“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.” — Victor Hugo

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“I'm religiously opposed to religion.” — Victor Hugo

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