Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo Deceiving Copy Share Image
“To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It” — Victor Hugo Work Copy Share Image
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. — Victor Hugo Bible Copy Share Image
“To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection.” — Victor Hugo Credit Copy Share Image
“The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.” — Victor Hugo Degradation Copy Share Image
Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear. — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers. — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above… — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because… — Victor Hugo Humour Copy Share Image
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at… — Victor Hugo Light Copy Share Image
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his… — Victor Hugo Elbows Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Battlefields Copy Share Image
“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a… — Victor Hugo Hatred Copy Share Image
“Can human nature be so entirely transformed inside and out? Can man, created by God, be made wicked by man? Can a… — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face… — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Be Copy Share Image
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,… — Victor Hugo Coffins 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 Accounts Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was… — Victor Hugo Misery Copy Share Image
“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies,… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
