Quotes by Victor Hugo

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.