Quote

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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
Accomplished
Progress
Stage

More quotes by Victor Hugo

Image
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
Victor Hugo
Image
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
Image
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Victor Hugo
Image
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Image
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
Victor Hugo
Image
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
Victor Hugo
Image
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
Victor Hugo
Image
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Image
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
Victor Hugo
Image
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
Victor Hugo
Image
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
Victor Hugo
Image
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
Victor Hugo
Image
If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
Victor Hugo
Image
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
Victor Hugo
Image
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
Image
There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
Victor Hugo
Image
And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
Victor Hugo
Image
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
Victor Hugo
Image
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo