There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. — Victor Hugo Care Copy Share Image
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. — Victor Hugo Beauty Copy Share Image
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.” — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
“He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon… — Victor Hugo Great passion Copy Share Image
“To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is… — Victor Hugo Bends in the road Copy Share Image
“Had he not had a greater purpose, the saving not of his life but of his soul, the resolve to become a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in… — Victor Hugo Early morning Copy Share Image
“He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. “These fashions have… — Victor Hugo Old age Copy Share Image
“Large sums passed through his hands. Nevertheless, nothing changed his way of life or added the slightest luxury to his simple life.… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“All generous social irradiations spring from science, letters, arts, education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm you.… — Victor Hugo Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the… — Victor Hugo Future 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
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.” — Victor Hugo Success Copy Share Image
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. — Victor Hugo Intellect 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
“No tratar con la gente permite atribuirle todas las perfecciones” — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in... — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.” — Victor Hugo Family relationships Copy Share Image
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground. — Victor Hugo Shadow Copy Share Image
