Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves. — Victor Hugo Dollars Copy Share Image
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer. — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
“the goodness of the mother is written on the gaiety of the child.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. — Victor Hugo Brilliancy Copy Share Image
“Recima uvek izmakne onaj neshvatljivi deo duse.Za izraz postoje granice,misao ih nema.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won’t be ten cartridges in the barricade.” — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always… — Victor Hugo Shade Copy Share Image
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day… — Victor Hugo Anxiety Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
“In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can… — Victor Hugo Materialism Copy Share Image
At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Certainly she was wonderfully beautiful. All that could be said of her that was in any sense critical was that there seemed… — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
“His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep… — Victor Hugo Brain Copy Share Image
The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“The right, indeed, is indestructible. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be Teutonic. Kings waste their energies in that… — Victor Hugo Sooner or later Copy Share Image
“But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.” — Victor Hugo Clever Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest sourcethat nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness. — Victor Hugo Blindness Copy Share Image
“Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? But where are the snows of years gone by?” — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. — Victor Hugo Doubt Copy Share Image
“The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.” — Victor Hugo Massacre Copy Share Image
“Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault.” — Victor Hugo Innocence Copy Share Image
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo Book Copy Share Image
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.” — Victor Hugo Bored Copy Share Image
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest? — Victor Hugo Charity Copy Share Image
“But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.” — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.” — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
