Quote

Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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
Earnestness
Eloquence
Salt

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Victor Hugo
Image
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
Victor Hugo
Image
There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
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
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo
Image
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.
Victor Hugo
Image
Joy is the reflex of terror.
Victor Hugo
Image
The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.
Victor Hugo
Image
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
Image
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
Victor Hugo
Image
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
Victor Hugo
Image
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
Victor Hugo
Image
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
Victor Hugo
Image
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
Victor Hugo
Image
To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
Victor Hugo
Image
A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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
Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
Victor Hugo