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
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
He who despairs is wrong.