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
Victor Hugo quotes about
There is nothing as exciting as an idea whose time has come
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened