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
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman
The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.