Victor Hugo Quotes

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.