“He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.” — Victor Hugo Affection Copy Share Image
“he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Les Miserables — Victor Hugo Friend Copy Share Image
“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.” — Victor Hugo Humanity Copy Share Image
“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.” — Victor Hugo Bread Copy Share Image
“The souls of the upright in sleep have vision of a mysterious heaven.” — Victor Hugo Dreams Copy Share Image
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to… — Victor Hugo Love Copy Share Image
War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or… — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
“As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be… — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for oureselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
“God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.” — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
“Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry” — Victor Hugo Egotism Copy Share Image
“Why was I not made of stone like thee? --Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off… — Victor Hugo Gargoyle Copy Share Image
“The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea. The towns make men ferocious because… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest… — Victor Hugo Good men Copy Share Image
“We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not forget that you have a chamber here,… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“have kitchens, who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who strut about, a lackey before, a lackey… — Victor Hugo Positive Copy Share Image
“The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our… — Victor Hugo Break ups Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Abasement Copy Share Image
“She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and… — Victor Hugo Grief Copy Share Image
“Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory… — Victor Hugo French revolution Copy Share Image
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The man who is not loved soars like a vulture over the mistresses of other men;” — Victor Hugo Mistresses Copy Share Image
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us.” — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)” — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
“People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.” — Victor Hugo Misfortune Copy Share Image
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image