Books Quotes by Victor Hugo

“Books are cold but safe friends”

— Victor Hugo

“BOOK FIFTH.—THE DESCENT.”

— Victor Hugo

France lost a great novel last night.

— Victor Hugo

“BOOK SECOND—THE FALL”

— Victor Hugo

“Books are cold but sure friends.”

— Victor Hugo

“Books are cold, but sure friends indeed.”

— Victor Hugo

“BOOK THIRD.—IN THE YEAR 1817”

— Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire.

— Victor Hugo

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

— Victor Hugo

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

— Victor Hugo

“This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.”

— Victor Hugo

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

— Victor Hugo

“This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice.”

— Victor Hugo

“BOOK FOURTH.—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER”

— Victor Hugo

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo

When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

— Victor Hugo

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

— Victor Hugo

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not…

— Victor Hugo

“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he…

— Victor Hugo

“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.”

— Victor Hugo

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."…

— Victor Hugo

“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .”

— Victor Hugo

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

— Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page…

— Victor Hugo

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in…

— Victor Hugo

“I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble…

— Victor Hugo

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,…

— Victor Hugo

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…

— Victor Hugo

“My dear boy, a piece of advice. Read not so many books, and look a little more upon the Peggies. The little…

— Victor Hugo

“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It…

— Victor Hugo

The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the…

— Victor Hugo

“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would…

— Victor Hugo

“PREFACE TO THE 1832 EDITION At the head of the earlier editions of this work, published at first without the name of…

— Victor Hugo

“Oh, you who are! "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you…

— Victor Hugo

“The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its…

— Victor Hugo

“Three years ago, when this book first appeared, some people thought it was worth while to dispute the authorship! Some asserted that…

— Victor Hugo

“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a…

— Victor Hugo

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

— Victor Hugo

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

— Victor Hugo