Victor Hugo Quotes

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

Same, Away, Her

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

Sympathy, God, Sorrow

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo

Attitude, Thoughts, Soul

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Victor Hugo

Heart, Father, Friend

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo

Morning, Life, Busy

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo

God, Reason, Unjust

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

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo

Strong, Words, Bitter

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo

Dreams, Life, Future

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo

God, Philosophy, Necessary

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo

Human, Progress, Realize

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

Love, Children, Fathers

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo

Bravery, Curiosity, Feminine

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Nature, God

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

Love, Girl, Young

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Victor Hugo

Life, Decision, Thought

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo

Genius, Ideas, Unless

A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo

Great, Child, Artist

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Great, Human, Book

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo

Society, Down, Others

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

Life, Happiness, Rather

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

Age, Happy, Old

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
Victor Hugo

Stupidity, Vanity, Acts

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo

Art, Soul, Earth

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26, 1802

Died: May 22, 1885

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