Victor Hugo Quotes and its meanings

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

To love beauty is to see light.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Toleration is the best religion.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Mans greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A library implies an act of faith.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Toleration is the best religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Mans greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

People do not lack strength they lack will.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Mans greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.