Victor Hugo Quotes

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and of that human smile the sweetness of present civilization is composed.

Suicide: that mysterious route towards the unknown.

The nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth will be happy.

The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young woman, it is boldness.

The first equality is equity.

Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

We would judge a man more certainly according to his dreams than to his thoughts.

To inhale Paris preserves the soul.

No one keeps a secret like a child.

Symmetry is boredom and boredom is the foundation of grief. Despair yawns.

A torn conscience brings about a disconnected life.

Books are cold and certain friends.

A woman’s particular talent is to understand a man better than he understands himself.