106 Victor Hugo Quotes for You to Enjoy

Victor Hugo

French Author

Born: Feb 26, 1802

Died: May 22, 1885

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo

Winter Laughter Face Sun Drives Human Human Face

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo

Music Impossible Silent Said Cannot Which Expresses

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo

School Prison He Opens Closes Door Who

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo

Age Youth Old Old Age Fifty Forty

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo

Dictatorship Revolution Fact Becomes Right

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo

Change Principles Opinions Leaves Intact Roots Your Keep

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. Victor Hugo

Perseverance Secret Triumphs

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

Happiness Life Love Conviction Ourselves Rather Spite Greatest Greatest Happiness Loved

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Hugo

Adversity Prosperity Men Monsters Makes

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo

Age Happy Grace Old Wrinkles Old Age Adorable Joined Dawn Unspeakable

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. Victor Hugo

Bird Too Beneath Way Slight Hath Give Wings Feels Like Knowing She Sings Them Pausing Flight Who Her Awhile

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Victor Hugo

Thanksgiving Prayer You Solitude Thanks Enough Must About Give More Wings Knows Go Than Goes Where Much Your

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo

Life Time Careless Make Still Short Waste Waste Of Time

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. Victor Hugo

Hate Envy Wicked Way Admiring

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo

Soul Interior Sky Than Grander Sea Spectacle

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Victor Hugo

Time World Stronger One Thing Idea Come Armies Than Whose Thing

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. Victor Hugo

Love You Heart Try Will Human Heart Relic Human Cannot Eternal

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo

Kiss Compliment Something Through Veil Like

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. Victor Hugo

Savage Men Mountains Destroy Develop Render Forest Human Fierce Sea

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Victor Hugo

Soul Survival Light Entitled Become Stars Synonymous Eclipse Resurrection Dawn Like Well Returns Does Provided Same Endless Nations Night

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. Victor Hugo

Nothing Live Frightful Die

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo

Better Paradise Stupid Hell Would Would-Be Intelligent Than

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