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
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
To learn to read is to light a fire.
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.