“No one pries as effectively into other people’s business as those whose business it most definitely is not… What for? For nothing.… — Victor Hugo Business Copy Share Image
“What astonished me greatly was, that though he believed that he was under sentence of death, he made no effort to avail… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous.… — Victor Hugo Hideous Copy Share Image
“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.” — Victor Hugo Excellence Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid… — Victor Hugo Divine destiny Copy Share Image
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. — Victor Hugo Been Copy Share Image
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
“Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken the door.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. — Victor Hugo Deeds Copy Share Image
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. — Victor Hugo Balance Copy Share Image
“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the… — Victor Hugo Believe in god Copy Share Image
“You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like… — Victor Hugo Life 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 Human nature Copy Share Image
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign. — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. — Victor Hugo Inspirational quotes Copy Share Image
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. — Victor Hugo Thinking Copy Share Image
“Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.” — Victor Hugo Humor Copy Share Image
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist;… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it… — Victor Hugo Brides Copy Share Image
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of… — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“Everyday he saw better, and he began to climb slowly, one by one, almost reluctantly at first then, with intoxication and, as… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator. — Victor Hugo Calling 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 Excellence Copy Share Image
“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to… — Victor Hugo War Copy Share Image
“any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable… — Victor Hugo Psychology Copy Share Image
“Let us never fear robbers not murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real… — Victor Hugo Danger Copy Share Image
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we… — Victor Hugo Bad man Copy Share Image
If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not… — Victor Hugo Ifs Copy Share Image
“if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest” — Victor Hugo Claude-frollo Copy Share Image
“What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To… — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Bent Copy Share Image
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. — Victor Hugo Calmness Copy Share Image
“There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.” — Victor Hugo Chance meeting Copy Share Image
