Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light…

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

— Victor Hugo

“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”

— Victor Hugo

“Victor Hugo said it well. ‘To understand all is to forgive all.”

— Robert Bidinotto

“I stopped asking my father to take me to see Victor Hugo's pen, and he didn't mention it again. That world seemed to have…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it…

— Wilma Davidson

“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to read, but…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that the city considered tearing it down. Luckily…

— Stephanie Perkins

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. —Victor Hugo”

— Brian Halligan

“You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can’t understand what that means until you’ve read…

— Kevin Hearne

“Victor Hugo stopped talking and everybody went to bed.”

— Adèle Hugo

The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.

— Paul Kaye

“Victor Hugo's mighty settings where dream figures immeasurably larger than life stalked through an everlasting battle of antitheses, had carried them away by their…

— Émile Zola

Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Victor Hugo: ‘No power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Sanjaya Baru

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

— Jean Cocteau