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
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Conscience is God present in man.
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.