The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy… — Victor Hugo 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 Copy Share Image
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long… — Victor Hugo 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 Copy Share Image
“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She had witnessed a conflict between two men who held her liberty in their hands, her very life and that of her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
