1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Ce que Paris conseille, l'Europe le médite ; ce que Paris commence, l'Europe le continue.

Ne soyons plus anglais ni français ni allemands. Soyons européens. Ne soyons plus européens, soyons hommes. - Soyons l'humanité. Il nous reste à abdiquer un dernier égoïsme : la patrie.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.