There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. — Victor Hugo Humans Copy Share Image
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Come Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Abandonment Copy Share Image
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“To learn to read is to light a fire;every syllable spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all. — Victor Hugo Needs Copy Share Image
...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of… — Victor Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“As long as there are misérables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There” — Victor Hugo Truth Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“Les Miserables is first of all the product of a varied experience of the world, containing the perceptions of an entire life.… — Victor Hugo Entire life Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Excess Copy Share Image
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Power Copy Share Image
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Agony Copy Share Image
“Many men have a secret monster this way, a disease that they feed, a dragon that gnaws them, a despair that inhabits… — Victor Hugo Nobody knows Copy Share Image
And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you. — Victor Hugo Believe Copy Share Image
“A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.” — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables — Victor Hugo Friendship Copy Share Image
“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.” — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
“Red is an all-embracing colour,' said the bishop. 'How fortunate that those who despise it in a bonnet revere it in a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,… — Victor Hugo Fascination Copy Share Image
“Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch… — Victor Hugo Class struggle Copy Share Image
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. — Victor Hugo Behinds Copy Share Image
“The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.” — Victor Hugo Family relationships Copy Share Image
When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . .… — Victor Hugo Admirable Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been… — Victor Hugo Human race Copy Share Image
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image