Children Quotes by Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

— Victor Hugo

“Children have their morning song as well as birds.”

— Victor Hugo

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

— Victor Hugo

“the goodness of the mother is written on the gaiety of the child.”

— Victor Hugo

“The gravedigger's work is charming when done by a child.”

— Victor Hugo

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

— Victor Hugo

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom

— Victor Hugo

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

— Victor Hugo

“There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children.”

— Victor Hugo

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman…

— Victor Hugo

“Poor children cannot enter the public gardens; still, one would think that, as children, they had a right to the flowers.”

— Victor Hugo

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

— Victor Hugo

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

— Victor Hugo

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII…

— Victor Hugo

A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.

— Victor Hugo

“Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.”

— Victor Hugo

“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an…

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“This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long…

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“They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking…

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“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman,…

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“In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must…

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“The faults of women, children, and servants, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the faults of their husbands, fathers,…

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“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if…

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The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing…

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“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty…

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Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In…

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“He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which…

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“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

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they…

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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black…

— Victor Hugo

I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,…

— Victor Hugo

“She could become a child again, run and frolic, leave her hat on Valjean’s knees and fill it with bunches of wild…

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“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a…

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“She had witnessed a conflict between two men who held her liberty in their hands, her very life and that of her…

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“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It…

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“While in any other great city the vagabond child is a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is,…

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“A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it,…

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“In front marched Egypt. The Duke of Egypt at their head, on horseback, with his counts on foot, holding his bridle and…

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“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human…

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“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions…

— Victor Hugo