Top 500 Victor Hugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

— Victor Hugo

202. “I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

205. “Stupidity talks, vanity acts.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

213. “In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

215. “Homo homini monstrum.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

217. “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

218. “Sleep in Peace, God is awake.”

— Victor Hugo

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

223. “Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

226. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

229. “You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

235. “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

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

242. “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

243. “I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

246. “The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”

— Victor Hugo

247. “Men hate those to whom they have to lie.”

— Victor Hugo

248. “No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.”

— Victor Hugo

249. “Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”

— Victor Hugo

250. “Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?”

— Victor Hugo