If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. -Victor Hugo

 

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.


Comments

There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first?



This quote is just one of 46 total Victor Hugo quotes in our collection. Victor Hugo is known for saying 'If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo
310

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Victor Hugo
267
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo
261

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo
257

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo
255
Oh! love!... That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. -Victor Hugo
248

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Victor Hugo
242