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
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity...
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
Monastic incarceration is castration.
Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.