Victor Hugo

Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Victor Hugo

Biography : French writer, poet and dramatist.
Born: 1802 - Died: 1885
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

Victor Hugo - Quotes

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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love

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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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.
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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intelligence

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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happiness

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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youth

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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poetry

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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beauty

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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philosophy

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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