Inspirational Quotes by Victor Hugo

I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

— Victor Hugo

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

— Victor Hugo

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

Loving is half of believing.

— Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire.

— Victor Hugo

Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

— Victor Hugo

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

— Victor Hugo

Right is right only when entire.

— Victor Hugo

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

— Victor Hugo

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

— Victor Hugo

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

— Victor Hugo

“To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.”

— Victor Hugo

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

— Victor Hugo

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

— Victor Hugo

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

— Victor Hugo

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

— Victor Hugo

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

“When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous…

— Victor Hugo

“My friends, remember this: There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators.”

— Victor Hugo

“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.”

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

— Victor Hugo

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come”

— Victor Hugo

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

— Victor Hugo

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly…

— Victor Hugo

“Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the…

— Victor Hugo

“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially…

— Victor Hugo

“Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation…

— Victor Hugo

“Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras,…

— Victor Hugo

“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no…

— Victor Hugo

“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that…

— Victor Hugo

“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid…

— Victor Hugo

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

— Victor Hugo

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

— Victor Hugo

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

— Victor Hugo

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

— Victor Hugo

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

— Victor Hugo

I am for religion, against religions.

— Victor Hugo

Those who do not weep, do not see.

— Victor Hugo

He who despairs is wrong.

— Victor Hugo