Victor Hugo Quotes


He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.


Citations

Hugo, Victor. The Toilers of the Sea. Harper & Brothers, 1866.

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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.