The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.] — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul. — Victor Hugo Comedy Copy Share Image
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love. — Victor Hugo Dawn Copy Share Image
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? — Victor Hugo About yourself Copy Share Image
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They… — Victor Hugo Angels Copy Share Image
“The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of… — Victor Hugo Infinite space Copy Share Image
“He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo Butterfly Copy Share Image
“Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Abandonment Copy Share Image
“In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped… — Victor Hugo Liberty Copy Share Image
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
“Certainly they appeared utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments… — Victor Hugo Attention Copy Share Image
“If anything is terrifying, if there is a reality that surpasses dream, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to… — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he… — Victor Hugo Blunders Copy Share Image
“With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is… — Victor Hugo Bad people Copy Share Image
Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it… — Victor Hugo Divine Copy Share Image
“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with… — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image