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
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
There are no rules for felicity.
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the universe!