Victor Hugo1802–1885The quotations of
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician
1802–1885
38 quotes, most often on Love, History and Anti-Religion.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
- Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
- Les Misérables (1862), page 55, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of grief!
Les Misérables (1862), page 746, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert Publishers- Histoire d’un crime. Déposition d’un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Quatre-vingt-treize (Ninety-Three) (1874), Book VII, Chapter V- Speech, “Le centenaire de Voltaire”, on the 100th anniversary of the death of Voltaire, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris (30 May 1878); published in Actes et paroles—Depuis l’exil (1878)
