Quotes by Victor Hugo

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

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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

Lifes greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Im religiously opposed to religion.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

A library implies an act of faith.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

To love beauty is to see light.

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.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.