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.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Victor Hugo

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

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

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

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

Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Victor Hugo

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Victor Hugo

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

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

Victor Hugo

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