Victor Hugo Quotes

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

Should he remain in paradise and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.

History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in hu...

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

There are moments when the hands of a woman possess super human force.

Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They...

Sometimes, if the two old womenwere not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a veryadvanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with himself,peaceful, adoring, comparin...

Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.

There are many lovely women but no perfect ones.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover...

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

J'étais dans la mort; tu m'as remise dans la vie. Toi là, c'est le ciel à côté de moi. Donne-moi ta main, que je touche Dieu!

In becoming dirt, she has been turned to stone. To touch her is to feel a chill.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Let us be like a bird for a moment perched On a frail branch when he sings;

Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.