1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Love is a fault; so be it.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.