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
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
What makes night within us may leave stars.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas.
Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.