1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

If you don’t build castles in the air you won’t build anything on the ground.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it’s a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake – let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.

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

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.

I’m not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea...

If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.