Victor Hugo Quotes and Sayings

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.'

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo

I am like a forest that has once been razed; the new shoots are stronger and brisker. Victor Hugo

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. Victor Hugo

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

A library implies an act of faith. Victor Hugo

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. Victor Hugo

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise Victor Hugo

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

Everybody drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. Victor Hugo

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

Cities are bibles of stone. Victor Hugo

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

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. Victor Hugo

I shall be great and you rich, because we love each other. Victor Hugo

Popularity? It is glory's small change. Victor Hugo

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. Victor Hugo

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

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

History has its truth; and so has legend hers. Victor Hugo

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. Victor Hugo

But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. Victor Hugo

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. Victor Hugo

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