I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo Criticism Copy Share Image
“Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.” — Victor Hugo Consent Copy Share Image
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Be serious,” said Enjolras. “I am wild,” replied Grantaire.” — Victor Hugo Absurdity Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Pride Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one… — Victor Hugo Blind Copy Share Image
At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not… — Victor Hugo Christ Copy Share Image
“He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“and if you fall as Lucifer fell, you fall in flames! And so it must be, for so it is written on… — Victor Hugo Lucifer Copy Share Image
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him:… — Victor Hugo Bishop Copy Share Image
“Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation… — Victor Hugo Conquer the world Copy Share Image
“Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he… — Victor Hugo Philosophy of life Copy Share Image
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of… — Victor Hugo Butterfly Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
