When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . .… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to… — Victor Hugo Actor Copy Share Image
“the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“He was intelligent, and just sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he was, in reality, only a product… — Victor Hugo Epicurus Copy Share Image
The power of a glance, it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. Nothing is more real… — Victor Hugo Beginning Copy Share Image
“There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classified as pathologic, that denies the… — Victor Hugo Philosophy Copy Share Image
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am… — Victor Hugo Angel Copy Share Image
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Plea Against the Death Penalty Look, examine, reflect. You hold capital punishment up as an example. Why? Because of what it teaches.… — Victor Hugo Capital punishment Copy Share Image
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into… — Victor Hugo Blunders Copy Share Image
A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is… — Victor Hugo Community Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Darkness Copy Share Image
“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He… — Victor Hugo Evil within Copy Share Image
“Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them… — Victor Hugo Angelic Copy Share Image
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by… — Victor Hugo Borders Copy Share Image
“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak.… — Victor Hugo Fortune Copy Share Image
“Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not… — Victor Hugo Anguish Copy Share Image
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all… — Victor Hugo Depth Copy Share Image
What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair. — Victor Hugo Baggage Copy Share Image
“Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body… — Victor Hugo Hunger Copy Share Image
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be… — Victor Hugo Adversity Copy Share Image
“The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo Faith Copy Share Image
“Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their… — Victor Hugo Greatness Copy Share Image
M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and… — Victor Hugo Fate Copy Share Image
“Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the… — Victor Hugo Sentimental Copy Share Image
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
“Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because… — Victor Hugo Napoleon Copy Share Image
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist;… — Victor Hugo Human soul Copy Share Image
“Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life.… — Victor Hugo Father Copy Share Image
Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by… — Victor Hugo Chance Copy Share Image
“This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and… — Victor Hugo History Copy Share Image
“Do what we may to shape the mysterious stuff of which our lives are composed, the dark threads of our destiny will… — Victor Hugo Destiny Copy Share Image
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Life Copy Share Image
“to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: "Soldiers, you… — Victor Hugo Widowers Copy Share Image
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. — Victor Hugo Prayer Copy Share Image
