Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
Victor Hugo
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Men
Psychopath
Lying
Hate
Truth
More quotes by Victor Hugo
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
Victor Hugo
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Victor Hugo
A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor Hugo
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
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
Victor Hugo
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
Victor Hugo
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.
Victor Hugo
A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
Victor Hugo
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
Victor Hugo
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
Victor Hugo
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
Victor Hugo
Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
Victor Hugo
He saw before him two roads, both equally straight but he saw two and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.
Victor Hugo
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
Victor Hugo
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
Victor Hugo
