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
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.
Right is right only when entire.
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.