Victor Hugo Quotes

French - Author | February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

Victor Hugo

LoveJealousTruePureNorNeither

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Victor Hugo

CapOldDictionaryPut

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Victor Hugo

GoodQualityMercySidesBoth Sides

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Victor Hugo

QueenPoetryCharmCreatorSupreme

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

ThoughtLaborPleasureIntellect

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Victor Hugo

CartOxSuffersComplains

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Victor Hugo

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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SufferingAngelsBecomeHumanBeings

To love is to act.

Victor Hugo

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