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
Toleration is the best religion.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.