Victor Hugo Quotes

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Compliment, Through, Something

• To love beauty is to see light.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Light

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books - Reading, Syllable, Fire, Spark, Reading

• Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Race, Style, Man

• Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Solitude, Misfortune, Heroes, Abandonment, Poverty

• Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Sad

  Tags in Melancholy, Pleasure

• Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Caution

• A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Femininity, Women

• There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rules, People, Honor

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

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Joviality, Cheerfulness

• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Tags in Reflections

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Her, Vanity, Frailty, Word, Woman, Govern, Grace

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Return

• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Institution, Destruction, Bad

• When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absence

• What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Garden, Ugly, Mountain

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

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Grander

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  Victor Hugo

  Tags in Microscope, Apparent, Telescope

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Veil, Virtue

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Eternal, Relic, Annihilate, Heart, Will

Victor Hugo (266)

Birth:	26th February, 1802
Death:	22nd May, 1885
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

About

Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered the most well-known French Romantic writer. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements.

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