1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.