1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.