Beauty Quote by Overeaters Anonymous

“Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”

— Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, forced himself to write by disrobing and giving his clothing to his valet with strict instructions that it…

— Wilma Davidson

“The World. Hugo had once told Nathaniel in Will's presence, was made by many men, but shaped by few. The important thing was to…

— Anonymous

“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools,…

— Emil M. Cioran

“CHAPTER 2: THE GRACE-SHAPED LIFE 1. Jim Reimann, Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (Nashville: Word Publishing, 2001), 16. 2. Ibid., 29–31.”

— Max Lucado

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it…

— Gustave Flaubert

“It all begins with your great-grandfather, Sir Hugo Baskerville, who was a right bastard, and no denying.”

— G.S. Denning

“Have a courage to repulse those people who dare to affront you because everyone has an Achilles' heel. Outshine them, and let your light…

— Maverick

“Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must perceive appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wellington once told a junior officer that timing was everything in life, and who was Hugo to disagree with the victor of Waterloo, especially…

— Jeffrey Archer

“there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault…

— Victor Hugo