Victor Hugo Quotes

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To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Love, Light

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music, Cannot, Impossible

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, Life, Happiness

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

Education, School, Door

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

Mother's Day, Mother, Sleep

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

Inspirational, Through, Kiss

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

Intelligence, Wife, Mistress

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

Thanksgiving, Give, Enough

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

Courage, Life, Peace

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
Victor Hugo

Hate, Envy, Wicked

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Power, Time, Powerful

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

Faith, Nothing, Him

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

Age, Old, Youth

To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo

Love, God, Person

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Love, Life, Flower

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo

Change, Keep, Opinions

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

Laughter, Human, Sun

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo

Men, Adversity, Makes

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo

Woman, Eyes, Her

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo

Stupid, Hell, Paradise

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo

Revolution, Fact, Becomes

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo

Funny, Done, Harm

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

Love, Through, Soul

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo

Smile, Human, Jesus

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26, 1802

Died: May 22, 1885

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