Victor Hugo Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”

“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

“Toleration is the best religion.”

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”

“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”