Top 197 Quotes by Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.