1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Another story must begin!

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars -all the beauties of creation.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.