If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. — Victor Hugo Believes Copy Share Image
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. — Victor Hugo Command Copy Share Image
“the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind.” — Victor Hugo North wind Copy Share Image
“You have knocked at every door?" she asked. "Yes." "Have you knocked at that one there?" "No." "Knock there.” — Victor Hugo Knocked Door Copy Share Image
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. — Victor Hugo Compliment Copy Share Image
“The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.” — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor… — Victor Hugo Language Copy Share Image
“They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking… — victor hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall… — Victor Hugo Nothingness Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Fiction Copy Share Image
If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most… — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny… — Victor Hugo Communicate Copy Share Image
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing… — Victor Hugo Admirable Copy Share Image
“At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press.… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
“When the nettle is young, the leaves make excellent greens; when it grows old it has filaments and fibers like hemp and… — Victor Hugo Humanity Copy Share Image
“Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just… — Victor Hugo Says Corpse Copy Share Image
The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which… — Victor Hugo Awful Copy Share Image
“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between… — Victor Hugo Barricade Copy Share Image
“All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything,… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you… — Victor Hugo Compassion Copy Share Image
“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the… — Victor Hugo Insurrection Copy Share Image
