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
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.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.