Victor Hugo Quotes

1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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“Loving is half of believing.”
Belief
“Liberation is not deliverance.”
Freedom
“Progress is the stride of God.”
Progress
“Toleration is the best religion.”
Religion
“He does not weep who does not see.”
Cries and Crying
“A library implies an act of faith.”
Libraries
“Those who live are those who fight.”
Life and Living
“Popularity? It's glory's small change.”
Popularity
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
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“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”
Life and Living
“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
Charity
“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”
Argument
“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.”
Secrets
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Love
“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”
Curiosity
“God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.”
Flirting
“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”
Taste
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
Adversity
“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
Compliments
“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”
Genius
“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.”
Action
“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
Happiness
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
Laughter
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
Common Sense
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
Age and Aging
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
Action
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
Thoughts and Thinking