1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.