1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.