Victor Hugo

45 quotations
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo · Adversity
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo · Age and Aging
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo · Age and Aging
We are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo · Deeds and Good Deeds
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo · Education
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Victor Hugo · Eloquence
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
Victor Hugo · Flirting
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo · Freedom
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo · Genius
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Victor Hugo · Gossip
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo · Happiness
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo · Human Rights
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo · Ideas
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo · Laughter
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo · Libraries
Those who live are those who fight.
Victor Hugo · Life and Living
Life is a voyage.
Victor Hugo · Life and Living
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo · Life and Living
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo · Argument
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo · Listening
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo · Love
To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
Victor Hugo · Love
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
Victor Hugo · Music
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Victor Hugo · Planning
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Victor Hugo · Popularity

Subjects Victor Hugo spoke about

Action Adversity Age and Aging Argument Belief Books - Reading Charity Common Sense Compliments Cries and Crying Critics and Criticism Curiosity Danger Deeds and Good Deeds Education Eloquence Flirting Freedom Genius Gossip