Quote

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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
Wisdom
Child
Artist
Children
Great
Men

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
Victor Hugo
Image
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo
Image
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
Victor Hugo
Image
The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
Victor Hugo
Image
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
Victor Hugo
Image
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Victor Hugo
Image
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
Victor Hugo
Image
These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
Victor Hugo
Image
Love is reducing the universe to one being.
Victor Hugo
Image
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Victor Hugo
Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
Victor Hugo
Image
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
Victor Hugo
Image
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
Victor Hugo
Image
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
Victor Hugo
Image
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Victor Hugo
Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo
Image
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
Victor Hugo