55 Famous Quotes by Victor Hugo
2/26/1802 - 5/22/1885
Also Known As:
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
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About Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831.
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He was buried in the Panthéon.
The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,
Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars
Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer
Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,
Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.
Moon
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: Boaz Asleep
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Dreams
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: Early Love Revisited
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Madame, bear in mind
That princes govern all things--save the wind.
Wind
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: The Infanta's Rose
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
Sight
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: Eviradnus (IX)
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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Ruin
Quotes, by Victor Hugo , Source: The Vanished City
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Sleep
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
All about love
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
Country
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The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.
Happiness
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