Les mis Quote by Victor Hugo

“Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps…

— Victor Hugo

I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant.…

— Prue Leith

“Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables was required reading in Korean schools, as was Alphonse Daudet’s short story, “La Dernière Classe,” for both my parents’ and…

— Euny Hong

“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a…

— William S. Wilson

“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 two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.

— Paul Kaye

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading…

— Graham Robb

“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

“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to read, but…

— Mouloud Benzadi

If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his…

— Rosellen Brown

“Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : "?" The publisher's response: "!" ”

— Victor Hugo

“All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who…

— Marcel Proust