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
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
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. — 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
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over… — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular… — Victor Hugo King Copy Share Image
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears,—these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are… — Victor Hugo Abyss Copy Share Image
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything butfruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. — Victor Hugo Evil Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, beautiful as Cosette was, Marius shut his eyes in her presence. The best way to look at the soul is through… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“He held his hat in his hand; there was no disorder in his clothing; his coat was carefully buttoned: he was very… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell… — Victor Hugo Human consciousness Copy Share Image
“He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris… — Victor Hugo Buildings Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
“WHEN any extraordinary events, unexpected anxieties or catastrophes, intrude themselves suddenly into a life up to that period peaceful and happy, these… — Victor Hugo Despair Copy Share Image
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. . . . You ask why I speak? I… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
“In front marched Egypt. The Duke of Egypt at their head, on horseback, with his counts on foot, holding his bridle and… — Victor Hugo Children 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
“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
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground. — Victor Hugo Shadow Copy Share Image
“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
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
“No tratar con la gente permite atribuirle todas las perfecciones” — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“For the masses, success has almost the same profile as supremacy.” — Victor Hugo Success Copy Share Image
