1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.