Top 500 Victor Hugo Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “It is man’s consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

— Victor Hugo

202. “The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”

— Victor Hugo

203. “Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

211. “Stupidity talks, vanity acts.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

218. “Homo homini monstrum.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

221. “Sleep in Peace, God is awake.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

223. “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

224. “Men are still men. The despot’s wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power’s excess, – Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”

— Victor Hugo

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

229. “Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

232. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

234. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

241. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

245. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

248. “I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo