Top 197 Quotes by Victor Hugo

About Victor Hugo

These are some quotes by French author Victor Hugo Author, who lived between February 26, 1802 and May 22, 1885.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Victor Hugo

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Victor Hugo

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

Toleration is the best religion.

Victor Hugo

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo

Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.

Victor Hugo

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Victor Hugo

Copyright © Softland 2016-2025. All rights reserved.