Quote

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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
Human
Humans
Trifling
Trifles
Leaves
Tree
Story
Stories

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
Victor Hugo
Image
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
Victor Hugo
Image
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
Victor Hugo
Image
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
Victor Hugo
Image
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Victor Hugo
Image
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Victor Hugo
Image
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
Image
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo
Image
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
Victor Hugo
Image
I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo
Image
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.
Victor Hugo
Image
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
Victor Hugo
Image
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Victor Hugo
Image
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
Victor Hugo
Image
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo