Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

—Victor Hugo

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

—Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

—Victor Hugo

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

—Victor Hugo

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

—Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

—Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

—Victor Hugo

To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

—Victor Hugo

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

—Victor Hugo

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

—Victor Hugo