Victor Hugo

Quotes

• “O my country! it is at this moment, when I see you bleeding, inanimate, your head hanging, your eyes closed, your mouth ...”
• “Ce livre, les Misérables, n'est pas moins que votre miroir que le nôtre. Certains hommes, certaines castes, se révoltent...”
• “I am reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. A book which I remember of old, but I had a great longing to read it again. ...”
• “Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of B...”
• “Let us not fall into the vulgar error, which is to curse and to dishonour the age in which we live. However deep the sha...”
• “For the triumph of the cause of my sex, I hope only that men will be slightly less intolerant and women slightly more su...”
• “Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy ...”
• “Vous avez des ennemis? Mais c'est l'histoire de tout homme qui a fait une action grande ou crée une idée neuve. C'est la...”
• “Let us have faith. No, let us not be cast down.To despair is to desert. Let us look to the future.The future,-no one kno...”
• “On the day when the human conscience shall lose its bearings, on the day when success shall carry the day before that fo...”
• “I admire Victor Hugo -- I appreciate his genius, his brilliancy, his romanticism; though he is not one of my literary pa...”
• “Victor Hugo in alluding to this effort on the part of woman for the redress of the wrongs and grievances under which she...”
• “Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion o...”
• “Quoted by Courtlandt Palmer, president of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, while introducing Robert G. Ingersoll...”
• “Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère e...”
• “Hugo, optimism incarnate, the vatic poet, recognised by God as the only worthy interlocutor, the courageous defender of ...”
• “Oriental studies have never been so intensive.... In the century of Louis XIV one was a Hellenist, today one is an Orien...”
• “Now it is all over. The great work is accomplished. And the results of the work!...Get all you can, gorge yourselves, gr...”
• “Let us sum up this government! Who is at the Élysée and the Tuileries? Crime. Who is established at the Luxembourg? Base...”
• “You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud whi...”
• “Victor Hugo has spoken of the nineteenth century as being woman's era, and among the most noticeable epochs in this era ...”
• “At certain epochs of history, there are pleiades of great men; at other epochs, there are pleiades of vagabonds. But do ...”
• “It is time, we repeat, that this monstrous slumber of men's consciences should end. It must not be, after that fearful s...”
• “Attributed to Hugo in Old Gods Almost Dead : The 40-year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones (2001), by Stephen Davis, p. 557;...”
• “Victor Hugo. in Jean Biès, Littérature française et pensée hindoue des origines à 1950. quoted in India's Impact on Fren...”
• “Dieu se manifeste à nous au premier degré à travers la vie de l'univers, et au deuxième degré à travers la pensée de l'h...”
• “Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses ...”
• “Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn T...”
• “Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Th...”
• “Telegram to his publisher regarding the sales of Les Misérables. The publisher's reply was an encouraging "!"; as quoted...”
• “Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers. Source: Shawn Tho...”
• “God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the t...”
• “Be proud, Frenchmen! Lift high your heads, Frenchmen! You are no longer anything, and this man is everything! He holds i...”
• “Two great problems hang over the world. War must disappear, and conquest must continue. These two necessities of a growi...”
• “I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth cent...”
• “Homère est un des génies qui résolvent ce beau problème de l'art, le plus beau de tous peut-être, la peinture vraie de l...”
• “In Hugo is maybe where I learned the freedom to be discursive, to trust that there will be readers who can accept long s...”
• “Vous tenez à l'exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu'il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exe...”
• “Now there is no more noise, no more confusion, no more talking, no more parliament, or parliamentarism. The Corps Législ...”
• “You insist on the example [of the death penalty]. Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example?...”
• “Histoire d'un crime (The History of a Crime) [written 1852, published 1877], Quatrième journée. La victoire, ch. II: Les...”
• “Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict huma...”
• “Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il ...”
• “He who is a legend in his own time is ruled by that legend. It may begin in absolute innocence, but, to cover up flaws a...”
• “At certain epochs in history, the whole human race, from all points of the earth, fix their eyes upon some mysterious sp...”
• “At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which is still so sombre, the miserable's name is Man;...”
• “Unpublished notebook from 1845-50. Published in Seebacher (ed.), Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 10, p. 158 (Laffont, 1989). Eng...”
• “Speech, "Le centenaire de Voltaire", on the 100th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris (30 M...”
• “Les fleurs," (ca. 1860 - 1865), from Oeuvres complètes (1909); published in English as The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, trans...”
• “This quotation has been attributed to Victor Hugo since the nineteenth century, but the earliest citations attribute the...”