1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

To have lied is to have suffered.

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.