Victor Hugo Quotes
+16Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
+4Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
+1Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
- Victor Hugo
+1The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
+1Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
+1He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo
+1There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Victor Hugo
+1The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhaused all illusions.
- Victor Hugo
+1Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
- Victor Hugo
+1People do not lack strength, they lack will.
- Victor Hugo
+1Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
+1Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Victor Hugo
+1To 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
+1The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
- Victor Hugo
+1Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
- Victor Hugo
+1Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Victor Hugo
+1A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo
+1Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo
+1An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
+1There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- Victor Hugo
+1Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
- Victor Hugo
+1To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
- Victor Hugo
+1Our lie dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
- Victor Hugo
+1Be 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
+1There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo