1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.