Victor Hugo Quotes

Victor Hugo Quotes.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo
Reaction – a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been -

I would have liked to be – indeed, I should have been – a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress,

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo