Victor Hugo Quotes


God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content.


Citations

Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887, p. 165.

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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.