There is in every village a torch—the teacher: and an…

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

— Victor Hugo

“In every village there is a candle, the teacher; and an extinguisher, the clergy.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Robert Bidinotto

“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

“CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29–31.”

— Max Lucado

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. --Victor Hugo

— Victor 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

“Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : "?" The publisher's response: "!" ”

— Victor Hugo

“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

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon

— Raymond Roussel

“Presents are made for the pleasure of the one who gives them, not for the merits of those who receive them,' said my father.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. ‘“Sleep in peace, God is awake.”

— Jan Karon

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

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

— Overeaters Anonymous