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
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
Algebra applies to the clouds.
Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Progress is the life-style of man.
Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Every idea must have a visible enfolding.