Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Victor Hugo

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions.

Victor Hugo

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Victor Hugo

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Victor Hugo

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Victor Hugo

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Victor Hugo

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

Victor Hugo

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Victor Hugo

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Victor Hugo

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Victor Hugo

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Victor Hugo

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Victor Hugo

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Victor Hugo

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

Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Victor Hugo

One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

Victor Hugo

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

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

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Victor Hugo

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.