Book Quote by Victor Hugo

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless”

— Victor Hugo

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

— Victor Hugo

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

— Dorothy Parker

“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a destiny that…

— Victor Hugo

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

— Colm Wilkinson

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the…

— Voltaire

Books are the curse of the human race.

— Benjamin Disraeli

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

— Hannah More