Top 40 Victor Hugo Quotes


Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.


A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Toleration is the best religion.

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

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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