1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.