Quotes by Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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.

To love beauty is to see light.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.