A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. — Victor Hugo Excellence Copy Share Image
That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Bishops Copy Share Image
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin. — Victor Hugo Giving Copy Share Image
“Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.” — Victor Hugo Success Copy Share Image
“Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All… — Victor Hugo Angels Copy Share Image
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
“principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens planted with magnificent… — Victor Hugo Th Of July Copy Share Image
“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.” — Víctor Hugo Revolution Copy Share Image
“He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which… — Victor Hugo Children 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
“He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and… — Victor Hugo Fate 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
“Cuando le ocurría alguna vez, porque, ¿a quién no le ocurre? Decir: -¡Oh. si fuese rico!- no lo decía nunca echando el… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. — Victor Hugo Beautiful 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
“Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery… — Victor Hugo Mystery Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.” — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls,… — Victor Hugo Discipline Copy Share Image
Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of… — Victor Hugo Behinds Copy Share Image
“He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it… — Victor Hugo Progress Copy Share Image
