1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

I understand only love and liberty.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

D'une complexion farouche et bavarde, ayant le désir de ne voir personne et le besoin de parler à quelqu'un, il se tirait d'affaire en se parlant à lui-même. Quiconque a vécu solitaire sait à quel point le monologue est dans la nature. La parole intérieure démange. Haranguer l'espace est un exutoire. Parler tout haut et tout seul, cela fait l'effet d'un dialogue avec le dieu qu'on a en soit.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

Germination embraces in its complexity the explosion of a meteor and the breaking of the eggshell by the peck of the swallow's beak, and is equally responsible for the birth of an earthworm and the coming of Socrates. Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the greater vision? You choose. A patch of mould is a constellation of flowers. A nebula is an ant's nest of stars.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come