“France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.” — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo Dignity Copy Share Image
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea… — Victor Hugo Progress Copy Share Image
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the whole, for these petty contradictions of… — Victor Hugo Contradictions Copy Share Image
“Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious… — Victor Hugo Ambition Copy Share Image
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It… — Victor Hugo Adversity Copy Share Image
“But you are good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the good God should constitute… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Civil war… What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare… — Victor Hugo Brother Copy Share Image
“One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow … Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“The episcopal palace was a huge and beautiful house, built of stone at the beginning of the last century by M. Henri… — Victor Hugo Episcopal Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing… — Victor Hugo Bells Copy Share Image
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then… — Victor Hugo Communication Copy Share Image
“Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the idea of duty, are things that, when in error, can turn hideous, but – even though hideous… — Victor Hugo Atrocity Copy Share Image
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night.” — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
“As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.” — Victor Hugo Gospel Copy Share Image
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. — Victor Hugo Imagination Copy Share Image
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo Chastity Copy Share Image
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.” — Victor Hugo Altars Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Amity Copy Share Image
“Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.” — Victor Hugo Cats Copy Share Image
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two. — Victor Hugo Hope Copy Share Image
“A torch-flame resembles the wisdom of cowards: it gives a poor light because it trembles.” — Victor Hugo Cowards Copy Share Image
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so. — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
