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
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
A library implies an act of faith.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.