Quotes by Victor Hugo

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love is to act.

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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

A mothers arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

People do not lack strength they lack will.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.