No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. — Victor Hugo Gentle Copy Share Image
“More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” — Victor Hugo Idea Copy Share Image
“Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.” — Victor Hugo Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity.” — Victor Hugo Austerity Copy Share Image
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Madness Copy Share Image
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! — Victor Hugo Death penalty Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she let fly with this: "It's nice here!" It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free.” — Victor Hugo Heart Copy Share Image
“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.” — Victor Hugo Common sense Copy Share Image
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Flame Copy Share Image
Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are… — Victor Hugo Climbing 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
“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy,… — Victor Hugo Flood Copy Share Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening… — Victor Hugo Awakening Copy Share Image
“O Zephine, O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of… — Victor Hugo Failure Copy Share Image
At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that,… — Victor Hugo Human heart Copy Share Image
“One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“When put into print, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, intangible, indestructible; it mingles with the air. In the… — Victor Hugo Architecture Copy Share Image
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providing free public education;… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
“That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. — Victor Hugo Boredom Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.” — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
“Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.” — Victor Hugo God Copy Share Image
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. — Victor Hugo Acts of kindness Copy Share Image
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. — Victor Hugo Death Copy Share Image
“A forza d'uscire per recarsi a sognare, viene il giorno in cui si esce per andarsi ad annegare.” — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.” — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful? — Victor Hugo Beautiful Copy Share Image
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. a” — Victor Hugo Army Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.” — Victor Hugo Annihilate Copy Share Image
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
