Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people… — 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
