“It is like a skull, which still has holes for eyes, but no longer sight.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
“It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.” — Victor Hugo Habits Copy Share Image
“In front marched Egypt. The Duke of Egypt at their head, on horseback, with his counts on foot, holding his bridle and… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“O Zephine, O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of… — Victor Hugo Failure Copy Share Image
“This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it… — Victor Hugo Dictators Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
“To blame or praise men on account of the result, is almost like praising or blaming figures on account of the sum… — Victor Hugo Truth and justice Copy Share Image
“I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Causes Copy Share Image
“As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be… — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life.… — Victor Hugo Father Copy Share Image
I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning. — Victor Hugo Littles Copy Share Image
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. — Victor Hugo Fierce Copy Share Image
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. — Victor Hugo Alphabet Copy Share Image
“Politically speaking, the murder of John Brown would be an uncorrectable sin. It would create in the Union a latent fissure that… — Victor Hugo American democracy Copy Share Image
“We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
