1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

When liberty returns, I will return.