--- title: "4 Middle ages Quotes By Victor Hugo" description: "4 Middle ages quotes by Victor Hugo. Plus more from Victor Hugo and more Middle ages sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/victor-hugo-32_age_these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and_1648066.jpg" --- > [These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and-quite-deeply-graven-in-the/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/victor-hugo-32_age_these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and_1648066.jpg) > [“The presence of this extraordinary being caused, as it were, a breath of life to circulate throughout the entire cathedral. It seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-presence-of-this-extraordinary-being-caused-as-it-were-a-breath/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f76/victor-hugo-32_cathedral_the-presence-of-this-extraordinary-being_2128638.jpg) > [The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-word-gothic-in-the-sense-in-which-it-is-generally-employed-is/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81c/victor-hugo-32_accepting_the-word-gothic-in-the-sense-in-which-it_3037166.jpg) > [“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/and-confronting-these-men-wild-and-terrible-as-we-agree-that-they/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/victor-hugo-32_barbarians_and-confronting-these-men-wild-and-terri_3206990.jpg) ## Other authors on Middle ages - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mason-cooley-65303.jpg) Mason Cooley 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-ages/mason-cooley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-laurence-j-peter-58961.jpg) Laurence J. Peter 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-ages/laurence-j-peter/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-yuval-noah-harari-100.jpg) Yuval Noah Harari 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-ages/yuval-noah-harari/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bernie-taupin-17422.jpg) Goldwin Smith 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-ages/goldwin-smith/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-g-k-chesterton-224.jpg) G.K. Chesterton 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-ages/g-k-chesterton/) ## More by Victor Hugo > [Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/houses-are-like-the-human-beings-that-inhabit-them/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-is-still-a-certain-grace-in-a-dead-festival-it-has-been-happy/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/he-caught-her-she-fell-he-caught-her-in-his-arms-he-held-her-tightly/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/first-i-loved-women-then-animals-and-now-i-love-stones-they-re-just/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/nature-is-pitiless-she-never-withdraws-her-flowers-her-music-her/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/have-courage-for-the-great-sorrows-of-life-and-patience-for-the-small/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/the-peasants-of-the-asturias-believe-that-in-every-litter-of-wolves/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/great-blunders-are-often-made-like-large-ropes-of-a-multitude-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/for-love-is-like-a-tree-it-grows-of-itself-it-send-its-roots-deep/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/blacheville-smiles-with-the-self-satisfied-smugness-of-a-man-whose/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/loving-in-ignorance-she-loved-with-all-the-more-passion-she-did-not/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/laughter-is-the-sun-that-drives-winter-from-the-human-face/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/our-joys-have-shadows-the-perfect-smile-belongs-to-god-alone/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/when-those-we-love-are-in-question-our-prudence-invents-every-sort-of/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) > [Love is a fault; so be it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/love-is-a-fault-so-be-it/) [Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-ages/victor-hugo/#itemlist", "name": "4 Middle ages Quotes By Victor Hugo", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Victor Hugo" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and-quite-deeply-graven-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/victor-hugo-32_age_these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and_1648066.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/victor-hugo-32_age_these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and_1648066.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18b/victor-hugo-32_age_these-greek-capitals-black-with-age-and_1648066.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs…” — Victor Hugo", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The presence of this extraordinary being caused, as it were, a breath of life to circulate throughout the entire cathedral. 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