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
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.
To have lied is to have suffered.
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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.
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.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.