Famous Quotes by Victor Hugo

Below are famous quotes by Victor Hugo - French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 - 1885).

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

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. God is awake.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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