1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

To love another person is to see the face of God.