“A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
Source: Poems. The history of a crime
“A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.”
Source: Ninety-three
“Every idea must have a visible enfolding.”
Source: Ninety-three
“Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.”
“A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.”
“The world of sleep has an existence of its own.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
Source: TOILERS OF THE SEA
“The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.”
Source: Works
“The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.”
Source: Ninety-three
“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.”
Source: Ninety-three
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.”
“There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.”
Source: Les Misérables
Source: Notre-Dame de Paris: Classic French Literature
“The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.”
“In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.”
“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”
“God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...
“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
Source: The Works of Victor Hugo