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
Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
Joy is the reflex of terror.
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
France is great because she is France.
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.