Quotes by Victor Hugo

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!


An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.


Habit is the nursery of errors.


He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.


Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.


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


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


Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.


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


A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.