Quote

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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
First
Distribute
Produce
Second
Wealth
Problem
Firsts

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.
Victor Hugo
Image
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
Victor Hugo
Image
I see black light (his last words)
Victor Hugo
Image
God made the water but men made the wine.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
Victor Hugo
Image
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
Image
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Image
The women laughed and wept the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
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
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Victor Hugo
Image
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
Victor Hugo
Image
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
Victor Hugo
Image
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo
Image
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
Image
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Victor Hugo
Image
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
Victor Hugo
Image
A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor Hugo
Image
The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
Victor Hugo