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
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
To love beauty is to see light.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.