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
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.
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.
Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
No religion but blasphemes a little.
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.