Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Despots Copy Share Image
“And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white… — Victor Hugo Artist Copy Share Image
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Excellence Copy Share Image
“A people, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless… — Victor Hugo Eclipse Copy Share Image
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and… — Victor Hugo Complicity Copy Share Image
“What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat… — Victor Hugo Justice Copy Share Image
“The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body… — Victor Hugo Characters Copy Share Image
“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight;… — Victor Hugo Fear Copy Share Image
“While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its members to suffer equally in one case for its… — Victor Hugo Human society Copy Share Image
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they… — Victor Hugo Absence Copy Share Image
“To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of the throne, and the mitre… — Victor Hugo Respect Copy Share Image
“What was he doing during the trip? What was he thinking about? As he had during the morning, he watched the trees… — Victor Hugo Aspects of life Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Aging Copy Share Image
These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic… — Victor Hugo Age Copy Share Image
“Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a… — Victor Hugo Philosopher Copy Share Image
“Civil war... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as 'foreign war'? Was not all warfare between men warfare… — Victor Hugo Civil war Copy Share Image
“Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity.… — Victor Hugo Fraternity Copy Share Image
“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Character Copy Share Image
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak,… — Victor Hugo Action Copy Share Image
“Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for… — Victor Hugo Forgiveness Copy Share Image
My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section… — Victor Hugo Caught in the act Copy Share Image
You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss:… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Animal Copy Share Image
“We are never done, then, with conscience. Make up your mind what to do with it, Brutus; make up your mind what… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
“Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard-table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and… — Victor Hugo Astronomy Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never… — Victor Hugo Catastrophe Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Avarice Copy Share Image
“Is there an infinite outside of us? Is this infinite, one, immanent, permanent; necessarily substantial, since it is infinite, and because, if… — Victor Hugo Existence Copy Share Image
A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall… — Victor Hugo America Copy Share Image
While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it… — Victor Hugo Brides Copy Share Image
“The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again… — Victor Hugo Another world Copy Share Image
“One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the… — Victor Hugo Ocean Copy Share Image
