Quotes by Victor Hugo
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
- Victor Hugo
A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
- Victor Hugo
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.
- Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo
Emotion is always new.
- Victor Hugo
You’ll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.
- Victor Hugo
Those who do not weep, do not see.
- Victor Hugo
Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
- Victor Hugo
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- Victor Hugo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Victor Hugo
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
- Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
- Victor Hugo
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
- Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
- Victor Hugo
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
- Victor Hugo