Quote

Progress is the stride of God.

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
Stride
God
Progress

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
Victor Hugo
Image
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor Hugo
Image
France is great because she is France.
Victor Hugo
Image
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo
Image
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
Image
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
Victor Hugo
Image
When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
Victor Hugo
Image
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Image
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
Victor Hugo
Image
I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
Victor Hugo
Image
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
Victor Hugo
Image
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo
Image
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
Victor Hugo
Image
Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted they saw each other and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.
Victor Hugo
Image
To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo