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.'

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo
Who could ever then can calculate the path of a molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the falling of grains of sand? Victor Hugo
Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America? Victor Hugo
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. Victor Hugo
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. Victor Hugo
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. Victor Hugo
The clouds. The only birds that never sleep. Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. Victor Hugo
It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job. Victor Hugo
Do you know what friendship is? it is to be brother and sister, two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. Victor Hugo
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. Victor Hugo
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. Victor Hugo
The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other. Victor Hugo
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. Victor Hugo
To lie a little is not possible; whoever lies, lies a whole lie. Victor Hugo
Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. Victor Hugo
I shall be great and you rich, because we love each other. Victor Hugo
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door closes a prison. Victor Hugo
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness. Victor Hugo
Many great actions are committed in small struggles. Victor Hugo
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. Victor Hugo
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. Victor Hugo