It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. — Victor Hugo Convict Copy Share Image
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo Language Copy Share Image
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.” — Victor Hugo Misfortune Copy Share Image
“He who has seen the misery of man only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of woman; he who has… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“In all his trials he felt encouraged and sometimes even upbourne by a secret force within. The soul helps the body, and… — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
“The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed,… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is… — Victor Hugo Abyss Copy Share Image
“The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of… — Victor Hugo Bourgeoisie Copy Share Image
“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with… — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Accomplishment Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Despots Copy Share Image
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,… — Victor Hugo Business Copy Share Image
“In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of… — Victor Hugo Belief Copy Share Image
“What about me?’ said Grantaire. ‘I’m here.’ ‘You?’ ‘Yes, me.’ ‘You? Rally Republicans! You? In defence of principles, fire up hearts that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“With a remainder of that brotherly compassion which is never totally absent from the heart of a drinker, Phoebus rolled Jehan with… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all… — Victor Hugo Hatred Copy Share Image
