Quotes from Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."
- Victor Hugo
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
- Victor Hugo
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
- Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
- Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
- Victor Hugo
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
- Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
- Victor Hugo
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
- Victor Hugo