The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. — Victor Hugo No reason Copy Share Image
“People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. — Victor Hugo Giants Copy Share Image
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. — Victor Hugo Every man Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves” — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. — Victor Hugo Intellect Copy Share Image
“For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.” — Victor Hugo Success Copy Share Image
Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character,… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than… — Victor Hugo Country 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 Affections Copy Share Image
“To such atrocities may men be driven who use the dagger for a cross, and upon whose mind the most trivial event… — Victor Hugo Dagger Copy Share Image
“My dear boy, a piece of advice. Read not so many books, and look a little more upon the Peggies. The little… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they… — Victor Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than… — Victor Hugo Profound Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
“The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated… — Victor Hugo Family Copy Share Image
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart… — Victor Hugo Facts Copy Share Image
“Love is like a tree: it shoots of itself; it strikes it's roots deeply into our whole being, and frequently continues to… — Victor Hugo Circumstance Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Clever man Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.… — Victor Hugo Accounts Copy Share Image
“This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image