Quotes from Victor Hugo
We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls.
- Victor Hugo
Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.
- Victor Hugo
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
- Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the
- Victor Hugo
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
- Victor Hugo
I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
- Victor Hugo
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
- Victor Hugo
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
- Victor Hugo
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
- Victor Hugo
The mind is a garden, said he.
- Victor Hugo
It is God who makes woman beautiful it is the devil who makes her pretty.
- Victor Hugo
...that word which GOD... has written on the brow of every man: hope!
- Victor Hugo