Quote

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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
Humorous
Harm
Revolution
Fashion
Wisdom
Fashions
Funny
Revolutions
Done
Rebellion
Witty

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor Hugo
Image
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
Victor Hugo
Image
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
Victor Hugo
Image
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
Victor Hugo
Image
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
Image
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem such affection is lasting, not passionate.
Victor Hugo
Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
Victor Hugo
Image
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
Victor Hugo
Image
He does not weep who does not see.
Victor Hugo
Image
All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
Victor Hugo
Image
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
Victor Hugo
Image
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
Victor Hugo
Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Victor Hugo
Image
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
Victor Hugo
Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
Victor Hugo
Image
[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
Victor Hugo