Quotes from Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
- Victor Hugo
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
- Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.
- Victor Hugo
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel
- Victor Hugo
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.
- Victor Hugo
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.
- Victor Hugo
Progress - the stride of God!
- Victor Hugo
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
- Victor Hugo
My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
- Victor Hugo
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
- Victor Hugo
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
- Victor Hugo
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
- Victor Hugo