Victor Hugo Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Victor Hugo quotes, Victor Hugo sayings, and Victor Hugo proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo
Many great actions are committed in small struggles. Victor Hugo
What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul. Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable.  There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
To think of shadows is a serious thing. Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. Victor Hugo
Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams. Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. Victor Hugo
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. Victor Hugo
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. Victor Hugo
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. Victor Hugo
To contemplate is to look at shadows. Victor Hugo
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago. Victor Hugo
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering -- a hell of boredom. Victor Hugo
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. Victor Hugo
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. Victor Hugo
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. Victor Hugo
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. Victor Hugo
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material". Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. Victor Hugo