That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Bishop Copy Share Image
It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. — Victor Hugo Beginning Copy Share Image
“But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo Bird Copy Share Image
The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction. — Victor Hugo Attraction Copy Share Image
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled,… — Victor Hugo Growth Copy Share Image
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and… — Victor Hugo Battle Copy Share Image
“There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his… — Victor Hugo Misery Copy Share Image
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.” — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is… — Victor Hugo Necessity 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
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature… — Victor Hugo 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
“While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the… — Victor Hugo Battle Copy Share Image
“Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. The useless must be mingled with happiness.… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“But who among us is perfect? Even the greatest strategists have their eclipses, and the greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You have no effect on me with your gesture of Hippocrates refusing bric-a-brac from Artaxerxes. I dispense you from quieting me. Anyway,… — Victor Hugo Melancholy 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
“I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside them.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. — Victor Hugo Thinking Copy Share Image
“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.” — victor hugo Politics Copy Share Image
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. — Victor Hugo Diamond Copy Share Image
“If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.” — Victor Hugo Child Copy Share Image
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. — Victor Hugo Atheism Copy Share Image
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. — Victor Hugo Drama Copy Share Image
“The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich. — Victor Hugo Inspirational Copy Share Image
“There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.” — Victor Hugo Bad husband Copy Share Image
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
