England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. — Victor Hugo Bible Copy Share Image
“God decreed that the love which came to Cosette was a love that saves.” — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Festival Copy Share Image
“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.” — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“In 1804, M. Myriel was the Cure of B—— [Brignolles]. He was already advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes… — Victor Hugo Despots Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“By degrees, however, they began to hope again. Such are our insubmergable mirages of the soul! There is no distress so complete… — Victor Hugo Hope Copy Share Image
For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Nature sometimes joins her effects and her appearances to our acts with a sort of serious and intelligent appropriateness; as if she… — Victor Hugo Nature Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
“Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them… — Victor Hugo Arrangements Copy Share Image
“Don't you recognize me?' 'No.' 'Eponine.' Marius bent hastily forward and saw that it was indeed that unhappy girl, clad in a… — Victor Hugo Wounded Copy Share Image
“Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Certainly,—and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,—the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he would, perchance, have pitied… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Treba se cuvati sanjarije koja se namece. Sanjarija nosi u sebi tajanstvenost i opojnost mirisa.Ona je katkada kao otrovna ideja koja se… — Victor Hugo 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
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