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Victor Hugo Quotes
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About Victor Hugo
 Life: 1802 - 1885 Country:  France Profession: Poet; Writer; Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
more... QuotationsThe guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. ~ Victor Hugo
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ~ Victor Hugo
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
~ Victor Hugo - Les Miserables, 1862
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ~ Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. ~ Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ~ Victor Hugo
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height. ~ Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~ Victor Hugo
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo
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