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
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
He who despairs is wrong.
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.