Victor Hugo Quotes


Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!


Citations

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Carleton, 1862.

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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
  • Born: February 26, 1802
  • Died: May 22, 1885
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist

Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.