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
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Liberation is not deliverance.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.