1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.