A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The faults of women, children and servants,' he said, 'and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The child entered the hut. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - "I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking… — victor hugo Copy Share Image
“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The faults of women, children, and servants, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the faults of their husbands, fathers,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He said to himself, that this child had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in advance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She had witnessed a conflict between two men who held her liberty in their hands, her very life and that of her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
