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-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.