| A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo |
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| A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. Victor Hugo |
| A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| A library implies an act of faith Victor Hugo |
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo |
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor Victor Hugo Quotes |
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo Sayings |
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| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. Victor Hugo |
| A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. Victor Hugo |
| An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| An invasion of armies can be resisted. But not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right. Victor Hugo |
| Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo Adages |
| Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room). Victor Hugo Remarks |
| At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry." (Les Miserables) Victor Hugo |
| Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo |
| Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. Victor Hugo Adages |
| Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do Victor Hugo Quotations |
| Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Victor Hugo |
| Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Victor Hugo |
| Before undergoing a serious surgical operation, put your affairs in order - you may survive Victor Hugo |
| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo |
| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when; whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo |
| Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. Victor Hugo |
| Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. Victor Hugo |
| Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter. Victor Hugo |
| Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men. Victor Hugo |
| Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. Victor Hugo |
| England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and The Bible. Victor Hugo |
| For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. Victor Hugo |
| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo |
| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo |
| From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Victor Hugo Adages |
| Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. Victor Hugo |
| Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. Victor Hugo |
| He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo |
| Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. Victor Hugo Adages |
| I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. Victor Hugo |
| I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| I'm religiously opposed to religion Victor Hugo |
| Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. Victor Hugo |
| If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Victor Hugo |
| If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. Victor Hugo |
| In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by The Eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach Victor Hugo |
| It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots. Victor Hugo |
| It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. Victor Hugo |
| Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. Victor Hugo |
| Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Liberation is not deliverance. Victor Hugo |
| Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo |
| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo |
| Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood. Victor Hugo |
| Loving is half of believing. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo |
| Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad Victor Hugo Adages |
| Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent Victor Hugo |
| Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent Victor Hugo Quotations |
| Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo |
| My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformaties, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old f Victor Hugo |
| My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. Victor Hugo |
| My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo |
| No one keeps a secret so well as a child Victor Hugo |
| No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep Victor Hugo |
| Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo |
| One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do. Victor Hugo |
| Our acts make or mar us, -- we are The Children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo |
| Our acts make or mar us, we are The Children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo |
| People do not lack strength, they lack will. Victor Hugo |
| People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| People reduced to the extremity of need are also driven to the utmost limits of their resources, and woe to any defenseless person who comes in their way. Work and wages, food and warmth, courage and goodwill - all is lost to them. The daylight dwindles into shadow and darkness enters their hearts; and within this darkness man seizes upon the weakness of woman and child and forces them into ignominy. No horror is then excluded. Desperation is bounded only by the flimsiest of walls, all giving access to vice and crime... they appear utterly depraved, corrupt, vile and odious; but it is rare for those who have sunk so low not to be degraded in the process, and there comes a point, moreover, where the unfortunate and infamous are grouped together, merged in a single fateful world. They are Les Miserables - the outcasts, the underdogs. Victor Hugo |
| Popularity? It is glory's small change Victor Hugo |
| Popularity? It is glory's small change. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| Progress is the stride of God. Victor Hugo Adages |
| Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers—Force and Power. In Hamlet the will is more tied down yet; it is bound by previous meditation—the endless chain of the undecided. Try to get out of yourself if you can! What a Gordian knot is our reverie. Slavery from within, that is slavery indeed. Scale this enclosure, “to dream!” escape, if you can, from this prison, “to love!” The only dungeon is that which walls conscience in. Prometheus, in order to be free, has but a bronze collar to break and a god to conquer; Hamlet must break and conquer himself. Prometheus can raise himself upright, if he only lifts a mountain; to raise himself up, Hamlet must lift his own thoughts. If Prometheus plucks the vulture from his breast, all is said; Hamlet must tear Hamlet from his breast. Prometheus and Hamlet are two naked livers; from one runs blood, from the other doubt. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. Victor Hugo |
| Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of Victor Hugo |
| Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time Victor Hugo |
| Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it; nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables) Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs Victor Hugo Remarks |
| So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. Victor Hugo |
| Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it? Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end. Victor Hugo Adages |
| The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. Victor Hugo |
| The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. Victor Hugo |
| The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist Victor Hugo |
| The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo |
| The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. Victor Hugo |
| The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. Victor Hugo |
| The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. Victor Hugo |
| The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. Victor Hugo |
| The sublimest song to be heard on earth is the lisping of the human soul on the lips of children Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved Victor Hugo |
| The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo |
| There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson Victor Hugo |
| There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo Remarks |
| There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height Victor Hugo |
| There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. Victor Hugo |
| There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo |
| There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Sayings |
| There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo |
| There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo |
| There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo |
| Those who live are those who fight. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo |
| To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Victor Hugo |
| To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Victor Hugo |
| To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo |
| To love another person is to help them love God. Victor Hugo Adages |
| To love another person is to see the face of God Victor Hugo Quotations |
| To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo |
| To think of shadows is a serious thing. Victor Hugo Adages |
| Toleration is the best religion. Victor Hugo |
| Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second Victor Hugo |
| We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, ev Victor Hugo |
| What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it might have been said: "Two principles are face to face. The white angel and the black angel are about to seize each other on the bridge of the abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the day?" Victor Hugo |
| What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past Victor Hugo |
| When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes Victor Hugo Sayings |
| When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo |
| Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Victor Hugo |
| Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall! Victor Hugo |
| Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? Victor Hugo |
| Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows. Victor Hugo Quotations |
| Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Wisdom is a sacred communion. Victor Hugo |
| You Punch me, I Punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a Punching bag. Victor Hugo |
| You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean -- Victor Hugo Popular Quotes |
| [fr.: On resiste a l'invasion des armees; on ne resiste pas a l'invasion des idees] Victor Hugo Sayings |
| “Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in Peace. God is awake.” Victor Hugo |
