“Better than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin. — Victor Hugo Deprive Copy Share Image
“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.” — Victor Hugo Culture Copy Share Image
“he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.” — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by… — Victor Hugo Borders Copy Share Image
“Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak.… — Victor Hugo Fortune Copy Share Image
The power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real… — Victor Hugo Beginning Copy Share Image
“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles.… — Victor Hugo Amazing Copy Share Image
“What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to take; are you aware of that? To live… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers or murders. Those are dangerous from without, Teddy dangerous. Let us be ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Bias Copy Share Image
“No one pries as effectively into other people’s business as those whose business it most definitely is not… What for? For nothing.… — Victor Hugo Business Copy Share Image
“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the… — Victor Hugo Humanity Copy Share Image
“Sir, sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who,… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Abundance Copy Share Image
