32 Victor Hugo Best Audio Quotes on Life, Education, Happiness

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

“ Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. ” – Victor Hugo

“ Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ” – Victor Hugo

“ A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. ” – Victor Hugo

“ Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“ People do not lack strength, they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

“ To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there.” – Victor Hugo

“ Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.” – Victor Hugo

“ There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.” – Victor Hugo

“ Table talk and lovers’ talk equally elude the grasp; lovers’ talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.” – Victor Hugo

“ Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.” – Victor Hugo

“ Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.” – Victor Hugo

“ To love another person is to see the face of God.” – Victor Hugo

“ Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” – Victor Hugo

“ All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo

“ Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” – Victor Hugo

“ It is by suffering that human beings become angels.” – Victor Hugo

“ If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned.” – Victor Hugo

“ You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.” – Victor Hugo

“ The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.” – Victor Hugo

“ There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.” – Victor Hugo

“ It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.” – Victor Hugo

“ Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.” – Victor Hugo

“ When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” – Victor Hugo

“ The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.” – Victor Hugo

“ The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.” – Victor Hugo

“ When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.” – Victor Hugo

“ There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.” – Victor Hugo

“ Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.” – Victor Hugo

“ A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.” – Victor Hugo

“ England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.” – Victor Hugo

“ A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.” – Victor Hugo