1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

Emotion is always new.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.