Victor Hugo Quotes -
Author of Les Misérables 

Les Misérables is a masterpiece of writing, so it should go without saying that these Victor Hugo quotes are as equally impressive, and inspirational. I hope you enjoy.

Victor Hugo was born in France in 1802, he did however spend 19 years of his life (1851 - 1870) in exile in Brussels and Guernsey.

During this time he wrote most of Les Misérables for which he is now best known. It was published in 1862 and is considered one of the great novels of the 19th century. Hugo is also the author of Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

On returning to France in 1870 he was declared a hero and re-entered politics working for social and political change.

Hugo died at the age of 83 in 1885, he was given a hero's funeral which was attended by over 2 million people.

A Top 10 List of
Victor Hugo Quotes

1:

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

- Victor Hugo

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"To love beauty is to see light."

- Victor Hugo

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"A smile is the same as sunshine;
it banishes winter from the human countenance."

- Victor Hugo

4:

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

- Victor Hugo

5:

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

- Victor Hugo

6:

"When a woman is talking to you,
listen to what she says with her eyes."

- Victor Hugo

7:

"As for methods of prayer, all are good,
as long as they are sincere."

- Victor Hugo

8:

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea
whose time has come."

- Victor Hugo

9:

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

- Victor Hugo

10:

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

More Victor Hugo Quotes

"To give thanks in solitude is enough.
Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go.
Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Victor Hugo

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"To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

- Victor Hugo

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"Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth,
and truth in the darkness of the mind."

- Victor Hugo

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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

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"Love each other dearly always.
There is scarcely anything else in the world but that:
to love one another."

- Victor Hugo

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"Sorrow is a fruit.
God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."

- Victor Hugo

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"Certain thoughts are prayers.
There are moments when,
whatever be the attitude of the body,
the soul is on its knees."

- Victor Hugo

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

- Victor Hugo

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

- Victor Hugo

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"He, who every morning
plans the transactions of the day,
and follows that plan,
carries a thread that will guide him
through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

- Victor Hugo

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