Some Quotations of Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) is considered one of the best Romantic writers in the nineteenth century. While Americans are most familiar with best-known works, Les Misérables and the Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre Dame de Paris), he wrote numerous others which qualified him for the French Academy. Additionally, he was involved in politics in opposition to Napoleon III. This led to his making himself an exile on the English Channel islands. 

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Short as life is, we can still make it shorter by the careless waste of time.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

To love beauty is to see light.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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