Quotes by Victor Hugo

If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.

Common sense is in spite of not the result of education.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

The nearer I approach the end the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous yet simple.

Inspiration and genius - one and the same.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

What a grand thing to be loved! What a grander thing still to lovel

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan carries thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

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

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. ... If the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.

There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

Progress - the stride of God!