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
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.