Quote

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

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
Word
Lasts
Last
Science
Firsts
Everything
Nothing
Accounts
First
Says

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
Victor Hugo
Image
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor Hugo
Image
If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo
Image
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
Victor Hugo
Image
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
Image
Emotion is always new.
Victor Hugo
Image
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo
Image
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
Victor Hugo
Image
Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
Image
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
Victor Hugo
Image
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Victor Hugo
Image
Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
Victor Hugo
Image
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Victor Hugo
Image
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
Victor Hugo
Image
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
Image
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
Victor Hugo
Image
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
Victor Hugo
Image
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo