Victor Hugo Beauty Quotations

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

To love beauty is to see light.