Victor Hugo Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Children, Father

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.1343, BookCaps Study Guides

• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

  Victor Hugo

  Wrinkles, Light, Grace

• When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Art, Kings

  Victor Hugo (1948). “Notre-Dame de Paris”

• In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Years, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.694, BookCaps Study Guides

• In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Mind, Age

• These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

  Victor Hugo

  Attitude, Hands, Greek

• The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

  Victor Hugo

  Father, Circles, Age

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.343, BookCaps Study Guides

• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Birthday, Men

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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