Quotes from Victor Hugo
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
- Victor Hugo
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
- Victor Hugo
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
- Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man.
- Victor Hugo
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
- Victor Hugo
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
- Victor Hugo
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
- Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
- Victor Hugo
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
- Victor Hugo
Taste is the common sense of genius.
- Victor Hugo
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
- Victor Hugo
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
- Victor Hugo