1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.