Famous Quotes

Quotes by Victor Hugo

• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
• The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
• The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
• There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
• 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.
• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
• To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
• To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
• To love another person is to see the face of God.
• To love beauty is to see light.
• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
• To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
• Toleration is the best religion.