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
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.