Victor Hugo Quotes

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

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.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

I would have liked to be – indeed, I should have been – a second Rembrandt.

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.

Conscience is God present in man.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Those who do not weep, do not see.