List of Victor Hugo Quotes

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Victor Hugo
Total Quotes 966
Women are more credulous than men.
Trust Men
In 1815, m. charles francois-bienvenu myriel was bishop of d-----. he was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of d----- since 1806. although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.
Book Men Gossip
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
Brother Hands Two
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. he judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. he said, 'let me see how the fault arose.
Men People Ordinary
And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. in reality, they are the same kind of man. one has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.
Country Reality Men
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
Soul Darkness Wickedness
A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
Men World Poet
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
Men Civilization Language
Out milky way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
Cities Dwelling Way
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
Men Creation Witness
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
Sovereign Eloquence Indignation
What dangers you run, o noble souls! often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
Running Heart Giving
  • Born: February 26, 1802
  • Died: May 22, 1885
  • Occupation: Poet
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