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
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.