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
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.
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.