“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.” — Victor Hugo Bishops Copy Share Image
“It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire.” — Victor Hugo Affair Copy Share Image
“The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There” — Victor Hugo Exaggeration Copy Share Image
“I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty. — Victor Hugo Bishops Copy Share Image
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. — Victor Hugo Bad day Copy Share Image
“All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at… — Victor Hugo Convent Copy Share Image
“Particularly at those moments when we have the sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of thought… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the… — Victor Hugo Advent Copy Share Image
What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old,… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!” — Victor Hugo Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and… — Victor Hugo Facts Copy Share Image
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Avarice Copy Share Image
“Is there an infinite outside of us? Is this infinite, one, immanent, permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite, and because, if… — Victor Hugo Existence Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again… — Victor Hugo Another world 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 Children Copy Share Image
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it… — Victor Hugo Brides Copy Share Image
