1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman

To love is the half of to believe.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

The malicious have a dark happiness.