“Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. — Victor Hugo Army Copy Share Image
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. — Victor Hugo Great man Copy Share Image
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. — Victor Hugo Bible Copy Share Image
“Indigestion was designed by God to impose morality on stomachs." Our entire lives explained in one French novel.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is… — Victor Hugo Boldness Copy Share Image
“Jean Valjean opened his eyes and looked at the bishop with an expression which no human tongue can describe.” — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because… — Victor Hugo Napoleon Copy Share Image
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist;… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by… — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
“Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life.… — Victor Hugo Father Copy Share Image
“Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will… — Victor Hugo Destiny 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
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all… — Victor Hugo Depth Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — Victor Hugo Anguish Copy Share Image
“The poor fugitive had exchanged his reindeer-skin garments for a full suit of black, left at the Spladgest by a famous Throndhjem… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their… — Victor Hugo Charity Copy Share Image
“Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in… — Victor Hugo Early morning Copy Share Image
“I mean to say that man has a tyrant,—ignorance. I voted for the death of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which… — Victor Hugo Ignorance Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“Some odd things were found; among other things the skeleton of an ourang-outang which disappeared from the Jardin des Plantes in 1800,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had already, in some preceding… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.” — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. — Victor Hugo Priests Copy Share Image
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. — Victor Hugo Atheism Copy Share Image
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.” — Victor Hugo Liars Copy Share Image
“Mes amis, retenez ceci, il n’y a ni mauvaises herbes ni mauvais hommes. Il n’y a que de mauvais cultivateurs.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love. — Victor Hugo Humans Copy Share Image
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. — Victor Hugo Fashion Copy Share Image
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. — Victor Hugo Comedy Copy Share Image
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
