“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: "For heaven's sake,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother:… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. — 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
