Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) 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 and then from 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,...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 February 1802
CityBesancon, France
CountryFrance
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
He who despairs is wrong.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.