Victor Hugo Quotes


Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he


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.