Victor Hugo Quotes

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo

Humanity, Made, Hell

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
Victor Hugo

Life, Bored, Sometimes

People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.
Victor Hugo

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

Nature, Woman, Made

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo

Real, Lives, Drama

Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo

God, Conscience, Present

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo

Before, Changing, River

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

Love, Men, Otherwise

No one can keep a secret better than a child.
Victor Hugo

Keep, Child, Secret

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo

Learned, Ignorant, Knows

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo

War, Between, Civil

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

Nature, Means, View

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo

Heart, Purse, Filled

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo

Forward, Shall, Hands

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

Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo

Long, Crime, Despotism

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Victor Hugo

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

Time, Idea, Greater

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo

Free, Poverty, Capable

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo

God, Morality, Stomach

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
Victor Hugo

Woman, Sometimes, Her

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo

End, Yes, Kings

Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor Hugo

Great, Small, Actions

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: February 26, 1802

Died: May 22, 1885

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