1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.