1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it’s fate are people.

A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest’s door should always be open.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D – – He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D – – since 1806.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.

There is a secret drawer in every woman’s heart.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?