1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.