Quote

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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
Enthusiasm
Reason
Fever

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
Victor Hugo
Image
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.
Victor Hugo
Image
We are for religion against the religions.
Victor Hugo
Image
Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
Victor Hugo
Image
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
Victor Hugo
Image
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo
Image
The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
Victor Hugo
Image
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Image
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
Victor Hugo
Image
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
Victor Hugo
Image
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
Image
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist it is by the ideal that we live.
Victor Hugo
Image
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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
Image
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
Image
The true artist can only labor con amore.
Victor Hugo
Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
Victor Hugo
Image
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Victor Hugo
Image
[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
Victor Hugo