1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Reality in strong doses frightens.

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.