Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. — Victor Hugo Carnival Copy Share Image
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Attitude Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.” — Victor Hugo Opinions Copy Share Image
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal… — Victor Hugo Devil Copy Share Image
“what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.” — Victor Hugo Hell Copy Share Image
“Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.” — Victor Hugo Corruption Copy Share Image
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity... — Victor Hugo Equilibrium Copy Share Image
“The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness,… — Victor Hugo Adventure Copy Share Image
“Pretty, but badly dressed," breath of an oracle which had passed by her and vanished after depositing in her heart one of… — Victor Hugo Breath Copy Share Image
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like… — Victor Hugo Audacity Copy Share Image
“According to an eastern fable, the rose was white when God created it, but when, as it unfolded, it felt Adam's eyes… — Victor Hugo Flower Copy Share Image
“Ah, there you go; '93! I was expecting that word. A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of… In literature, as in… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face… — Victor Hugo Face to face Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
“You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like… — Victor Hugo Duty Copy Share Image
We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and… — Victor Hugo Charity Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Civilization Copy Share Image
“He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his… — Victor Hugo Jean valjean Copy Share Image
“Miserable beings, who, during their ragged infancy, ran barefoot in the mud of the crossings; shivering in winter near the quays, or… — Victor Hugo Miserable Copy Share Image
“There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did… — Victor Hugo Human existence Copy Share Image
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none. — Victor Hugo Fist Copy Share Image
“Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.” — Victor Hugo Humor Copy Share Image
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.” — Victor Hugo Change Copy Share Image
“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.” — Victor Hugo Courage Copy Share Image
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. — Victor Hugo Fruit Copy Share Image
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of… — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“these cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst” — Victor Hugo Mind Copy Share Image
“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love. — Victor Hugo Dawn Copy Share Image
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? — Victor Hugo About yourself Copy Share Image