He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
“Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?” — Victor Hugo Candle Copy Share Image
“A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.” — Victor Hugo First step Copy Share Image
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. — Victor Hugo Desert Copy Share Image
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light. — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.” — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who… — Victor Hugo Friendship Copy Share Image
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king… — Victor Hugo Age Copy Share Image
“The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it… — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
“owing money was the beginning of slavery … a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person… — Victor Hugo Money Copy Share Image
“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving… — Victor Hugo Dismay Copy Share Image
“The victory of humanity over man. Humanity had conquered the inhuman. And by what means? In what way? How had it overcome… — Victor Hugo Being human Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“With Cosette’s garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would… — Victor Hugo 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
“The duty of the inn-keeper,is to sell to the first comer, stews, repose, light, fire, dirty sheets, a servant, lice, and a… — Victor Hugo Duty Copy Share Image
“The real threat to society is darkness. Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is… — Victor Hugo Alive Copy Share Image
“Fate, with its mysterious and inexorable patience, was slowly bringing together these two beings charged, like thunder-clouds, with electricity, with the latent… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
“But what was tragic about the girl was that she had not been born ugly. She might even have been a pretty… — Victor Hugo Aging Copy Share Image
Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In… — Victor Hugo Balance Copy Share Image
