Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. — Victor Hugo Fists Copy Share Image
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. — Victor Hugo Beauty 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 Excellent Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.” — Victor Hugo Demolishing Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Causes Copy Share Image
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. — Victor Hugo Idea Copy Share Image
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was… — Victor Hugo Goodness Copy Share Image
“Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she… — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
“By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete… — Victor Hugo Hope Copy Share Image
“The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past,… — Victor Hugo Time Copy Share Image
“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond… — Victor Hugo Broken Copy Share Image
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes… — Victor Hugo Despots Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Abyss Copy Share Image
“In 1804, M. Myriel was the Cure of B—— [Brignolles]. He was already advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner.” — Victor Hugo Years Lived Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Doe Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
“Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely… — Victor Hugo Incomplete Copy Share Image
“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Don't you recognize me?' 'No.' 'Eponine.' Marius bent hastily forward and saw that it was indeed that unhappy girl, clad in a… — Victor Hugo Wounded Copy Share Image
“Treba se cuvati sanjarije koja se namece. Sanjarija nosi u sebi tajanstvenost i opojnost mirisa.Ona je katkada kao otrovna ideja koja se… — Victor Hugo Toga Copy Share Image
“Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be… — Victor Hugo True or false Copy Share Image
“Certainly,—and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,—the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he would, perchance, have pitied… — Victor Hugo Every man Copy Share Image
“What can be the meaning of what has since happened? The turnkey on duty came into my cell; he took off his… — Victor Hugo Happened Copy Share Image