“He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not… — Do You Hear the People Sing Les Miserables Copy Share Image
“Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard-table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Come on. We must have a little pity. Do you know what we're talking about now?...When a man supports his relatives by… — Combeferre Les Misérables Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In his most thrilling military victory to date, Napoleon had defeated an Ottoman force eighteen thousand men strong at Aboukir. It had… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
