Victor Hugo Quotes
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhaused all illusions.
- Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Victor Hugo
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
- Victor Hugo
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Victor Hugo
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- Victor Hugo
Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
- Victor Hugo
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- Victor Hugo
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
- Victor Hugo
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
- Victor Hugo
Our lie dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
- Victor Hugo
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
- Victor Hugo
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
- Victor Hugo
Toleration is the best religion.
- Victor Hugo
Inspiration and genius one and the same.
- 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
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.
- 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
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
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- Victor Hugo
Life is a voyage.
- Victor Hugo
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
- Victor Hugo


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