Quote

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
Librettist
Memoirist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
Writer
Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo
Victor Marie
Comte Hugo
Beauty
Spiritual
Light
Love
Imperfect

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
Victor Hugo
Image
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
Victor Hugo
Image
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
Victor Hugo
Image
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo
Image
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
Victor Hugo
Image
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo
Image
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
Image
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
Image
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed human nature is so constituted.
Victor Hugo
Image
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
Image
Women are more credulous than men.
Victor Hugo
Image
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo
Image
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
Image
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
Image
Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
Victor Hugo
Image
The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
Victor Hugo
Image
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
Victor Hugo