Top 500 Victor Hugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.”

— Victor Hugo

202. “At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.”

— Victor Hugo

203. “It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”

— Victor Hugo

204. “We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.”

— Victor Hugo

205. “Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.”

— Victor Hugo

206. “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

— Victor Hugo

207. “A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

— Victor Hugo

208. “Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”

— Victor Hugo

209. “The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one’s own sake – let us say rather, loved in spite of one’s self.”

— Victor Hugo

210. “He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.”

— Victor Hugo

211. “Stupidity talks, vanity acts.”

— Victor Hugo

212. “If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.”

— Victor Hugo

213. “Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”

— Victor Hugo

214. “I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”

— Victor Hugo

215. “Love is the only future God offers.”

— Victor Hugo

216. “Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.”

— Victor Hugo

217. “Homo homini monstrum.”

— Victor Hugo

218. “There is a secret drawer in every woman’s heart.”

— Victor Hugo

219. “What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

220. “Sleep in Peace, God is awake.”

— Victor Hugo

221. “To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.”

— Victor Hugo

222. “I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.”

— Victor Hugo

223. “The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.”

— Victor Hugo

224. “There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”

— Victor Hugo

225. “It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.”

— Victor Hugo

226. “To love, or to have loved, – this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment.”

— Victor Hugo

227. “Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.”

— Victor Hugo

228. “Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.”

— Victor Hugo

229. “The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.”

— Victor Hugo

230. “The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.”

— Victor Hugo

231. “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

232. “Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.”

— Victor Hugo

233. “Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”

— Victor Hugo

234. “In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.”

— Victor Hugo

235. “The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”

— Victor Hugo

236. “Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.”

— Victor Hugo

237. “Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.”

— Victor Hugo

238. “A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.”

— Victor Hugo

239. “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”

— Victor Hugo

240. “Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.”

— Victor Hugo

241. “God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.”

— Victor Hugo

242. “To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”

— Victor Hugo

243. “A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.”

— Victor Hugo

244. “Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.”

— Victor Hugo

245. “What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

— Victor Hugo

246. “Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.”

— Victor Hugo

247. “I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

249. “Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”

— Victor Hugo

250. “Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”

— Victor Hugo