1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen as yet.

To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother