Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1802
CityBesancon, France
CountryFrance
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Liberation is not deliverance.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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.