When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. — Victor Hugo Communication Copy Share Image
“People mistake the constellations of the cosmic void for the stars made by ducks' feet in the soft mud of the bog.” — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.” — Victor Hugo Injustice Copy Share Image
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it… — Victor Hugo Progress Copy Share Image
“Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.” — Victor Hugo Judgment Copy Share Image
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes… — Victor Hugo Cosette Copy Share Image
“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.” — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman… — Victor Hugo Blessed Copy Share Image
“Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.” — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult wherein everything speaks except our mouth. The realities of the… — Victor Hugo Breaking silence Copy Share Image
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,… — Victor Hugo Fascination Copy Share Image
“This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Astonishment Copy Share Image
“While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is,… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“No temamos nunca ni a los ladrones ni a los asesinos: esos son los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Las preocupaciones, esas… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“Madame Magloire sometimes called him ‘Your Highness.’ One day, rising from his armchair, he went to his library for a book. It… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Discipline Copy Share Image
“The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should be ablaze with noble and enduring lessons of… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
