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Victor Hugo Quotes

Victor Hugo -- Quote #11

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #12

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #13

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #14

Forty is the old age of youth fifty is the youth of old age. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #15

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #16

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #17

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

Victor Hugo -- Quote #18

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #19

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. -- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo -- Quote #20

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation. -- Victor Hugo

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