“where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope! — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo Illusion Copy Share Image
“Misao je rad uma, maštanje je njegovo uživanje. Kad misao zamijenite maštanjem, onda uzmete mjesto hrane otrov.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Examine the road over which the fault has passed. - Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Then she looked at Marius, put on a strange expression and said to him, “Do you know, Monsieur Marius, you’re a very… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is… — Victor Hugo Advantage Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sretan je, čak i kad strepi, svaki onaj kome je Bog dao dušu dostojnu ljubavi i nesreće! Ko na ovoj dvostrukoj svjetlosti… — Victor Hugo Dusa Copy Share Image
“The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name of pity, which is nothing but a more… — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
“exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless… — Victor Hugo Eclipse Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Excellence Copy Share Image
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and… — Victor Hugo Complicity Copy Share Image
“What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat… — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
“The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body… — Victor Hugo Characters Copy Share Image
“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight;… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
“She could become a child again, run and frolic, leave her hat on Valjean’s knees and fill it with bunches of wild… — Victor Hugo Butterflies Copy Share Image
“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions. — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. — Victor Hugo Balance Copy Share Image
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill. — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
“The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.” — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
“It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry — Victor Hugo Anger Copy Share Image
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — Victor Hugo Celebration Copy Share Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. — Victor Hugo Boredom Copy Share Image
“No one could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from Italy he was a priest.” — Victor Hugo Priest Copy Share Image
My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. — Victor Hugo Farmers Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
