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A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won't be ten cartridges in the barricade. By Victor Hugo
Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade! By Victor Hugo
Protect the workers, encourage the rich. By Victor Hugo
So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger. By Victor Hugo
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. By Victor Hugo
All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge By Victor Hugo
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. By Victor Hugo
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things. By Victor Hugo
Proper distribution does not imply an equal share but an equitable share. Equity is the essence of equality. By Victor Hugo
The unforeseen, that strange, haughty power which plays with man, had seized Gauvain and held him fast. By Victor Hugo
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. By Victor Hugo
When I speak to you about myself, I'm speaking to you about yourself. How is it that you don't see that? By Victor Hugo
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? By Victor Hugo
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. By Victor Hugo
The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage. By Victor Hugo
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. By Victor Hugo
A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it. By Victor Hugo
There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly By Victor Hugo
Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears. By Victor Hugo
He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love, By Victor Hugo
When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs. By Victor Hugo
Why was I not made of stone like thee?Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire]. By Victor Hugo
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee? By Victor Hugo
There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life. By Victor Hugo
He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because he was free. By Victor Hugo
The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise. By Victor Hugo
Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich. By Victor Hugo
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. By Victor Hugo
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. By Victor Hugo
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven. By Victor Hugo
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. By Victor Hugo
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white. By Victor Hugo
He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends. By Victor Hugo
Alas! sir," said Gringoire, "I would that I could lend you some, but, my breeches are worn to holes, and 'tis not crowns which have done it. By Victor Hugo
He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work. By Victor Hugo
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. By Victor Hugo
I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion. By Victor Hugo
This will destroy that. The book will kill the edifice. By Victor Hugo
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates. By Victor Hugo
Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys. By Victor Hugo
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. By Victor Hugo
There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson. By Victor Hugo
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground. By Victor Hugo
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. By Victor Hugo
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. By Victor Hugo
Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles? By Victor Hugo
God decreed that the love which came to Cosette was a love that saves. By Victor Hugo
Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air. By Victor Hugo
If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head. By Victor Hugo
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven. By Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. By Victor Hugo
Suddenly she let fly with this: "It's nice here!"It was a ghastly dump, but she felt free. By Victor Hugo
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! By Victor Hugo
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. By Victor Hugo
He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. By Victor Hugo
My fellow, you strike me at present as being situated in the moon, kingdom of dream, province of illusion, capital: Soap-Bubble. By Victor Hugo
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought. By Victor Hugo
What love commences can be finished by God alone. By Victor Hugo
Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No. Because of God. By Victor Hugo
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. By Victor Hugo
It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army. By Victor Hugo
There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables. By Victor Hugo
Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and then my own, whom I call unfortunate. By Victor Hugo
There is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables By Victor Hugo
Nothing like a soulful glance under the noses of the saints! By Victor Hugo
"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,"The love of a damned soul. By Victor Hugo
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. By Victor Hugo
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. By Victor Hugo
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree. By Victor Hugo
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. By Victor Hugo
Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome By Victor Hugo
Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God. By Victor Hugo
Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. By Victor Hugo
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. By Victor Hugo
Red is an all-embracing colour,' said the bishop. 'How fortunate that those who despise it in a bonnet revere it in a hat. By Victor Hugo
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. By Victor Hugo
On the one side blind force, on the other a soul. By Victor Hugo
In the morning I write love letters and in the afternoon I dig graves By Victor Hugo
Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night. By Victor Hugo
As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night. By Victor Hugo
our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks. By Victor Hugo
The just man frowns, but never sneers. We understand anger, not malice. By Victor Hugo
As for Toussaint, she venerated Jean Valjean and liked everything he did. One By Victor Hugo
The moment comes when protest is not enough; reason must give way to action, and force ensure what thought has conceived. By Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. By Victor Hugo
If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light. By Victor Hugo
God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger. By Victor Hugo
God made only water, but man made wine. By Victor Hugo
No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man. By Victor Hugo
Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement. By Victor Hugo
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. By Victor Hugo
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. By Victor Hugo
The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic. By Victor Hugo
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical? By Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright. By Victor Hugo
Laughter is like sunshine; it chases winter away from the human face. Cosette By Victor Hugo
She gave anyone who saw her a sensation of April and of dawn. There was dew in her eyes. Cosette was a condensation of auroral light in womanly form. By Victor Hugo
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. By Victor Hugo
Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered. By Victor Hugo
With Cosette's garter, Homer would make the Iliad. He would put into his poem an old babbler like me, and he would call him Nestor. By Victor Hugo
When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud, happy, her heart full to overflowing. Jean By Victor Hugo
[THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] By Victor Hugo
Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives. By Victor Hugo
Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second By Victor Hugo
What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. By Victor Hugo
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke.Les Miserables By Victor Hugo
That's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall By Victor Hugo
Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. By Victor Hugo
Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled By Victor Hugo
Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. By Victor Hugo
To sacrifice the world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. By Victor Hugo
And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you. By Victor Hugo
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. By Victor Hugo
When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. By Victor Hugo
One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven. By Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just. By Victor Hugo
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. By Victor Hugo
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself. By Victor Hugo
A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs. By Victor Hugo
A person who is seated instead of standing erect - destinies hang upon such a thing as that. By Victor Hugo
Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned. By Victor Hugo
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. By Victor Hugo
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years. By Victor Hugo
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do. By Victor Hugo
Habit is the nursery of errors. By Victor Hugo
Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand? By Victor Hugo
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. By Victor Hugo
One becomes gradually accustomed to poison. By Victor Hugo
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees By Victor Hugo
All that he might have felt of love in his entire life melted into a sort of ineffable radiance. By Victor Hugo
A great artist is a great man in a great child. By Victor Hugo
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. By Victor Hugo
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background. By Victor Hugo
And after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here. By Victor Hugo
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. By Victor Hugo
Dark Error's other hidden side is truth. By Victor Hugo
What's our baggage? Only vows,Happiness, and all our care,And the flower that sweetly showsNestling lightly in your hair. By Victor Hugo
Look down and show some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man. By Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. By Victor Hugo
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips. By Victor Hugo
The wise man does not grow old, but ripes. By Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war. By Victor Hugo
Sin is a gravitation. By Victor Hugo
He, "how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold?" "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed By Victor Hugo
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures. By Victor Hugo
And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.She tried to smile once more and expired By Victor Hugo
The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet.[Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.] By Victor Hugo
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. By Victor Hugo
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. By Victor Hugo
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. By Victor Hugo
Part 1A Just Man By Victor Hugo
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. By Victor Hugo
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood. By Victor Hugo
Winter changes the water of heaven and the heart of man into a stone. By Victor Hugo
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. By Victor Hugo
The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he By Victor Hugo
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. By Victor Hugo
Reality in strong doses frightens. By Victor Hugo
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. By Victor Hugo
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution By Victor Hugo
Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. By Victor Hugo
In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous. By Victor Hugo
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. By Victor Hugo
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love. By Victor Hugo
First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous. By Victor Hugo
The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. By 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. By Victor Hugo
It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep. By Victor Hugo
Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. By Victor Hugo
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. By Victor Hugo
It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble. By Victor Hugo
Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man. By Victor Hugo
What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs! By Victor Hugo
A frightful exchange of metaphors took place between the maskers and the crowd. By Victor Hugo
A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. By Victor Hugo
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city. By Victor Hugo
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate. By Victor Hugo
If she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest By Victor Hugo
Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. By Victor Hugo
Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. By Victor Hugo
He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. By Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. By Victor Hugo
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. By Victor Hugo
Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it. By Victor Hugo
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength. By Victor Hugo
You have knocked at every door?" she asked."Yes.""Have you knocked at that one there?""No.""Knock there. By Victor Hugo
You see me no more comfortable in it than a cat coiffed with a calabash. By Victor Hugo
To love beauty is to see light. By Victor Hugo
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. By Victor Hugo
Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ... By Victor Hugo
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. By Victor Hugo
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. By Victor Hugo
For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins. By Victor Hugo
There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate. By Victor Hugo
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo By Victor Hugo
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. By Victor Hugo
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger. By Victor Hugo
God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men. By Victor Hugo
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. By Victor Hugo
Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? By Victor Hugo
It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. By Victor Hugo
I make little account of victory. Nothing is so stupid as to vanquish; the real glory is to convince. By Victor Hugo
Make thought a whirlwind. By Victor Hugo
We are for religion against the religions. By Victor Hugo
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing. By Victor Hugo
Women play on their beauty as children play with their knives. And they hurt themselves on it, too. By Victor Hugo
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. By Victor Hugo
Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble. By Victor Hugo
Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. By Victor Hugo
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. By Victor Hugo
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. By Victor Hugo
We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man. By Victor Hugo
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. By Victor Hugo
In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul. By Victor Hugo
Religion, Society, and Naturethese are the three struggles of man. By Victor Hugo
There are things stronger than the strongest man ... By Victor Hugo
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. By Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. By Victor Hugo
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity ... By Victor Hugo
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another. By Victor Hugo
Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another. By Victor Hugo
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men By Victor Hugo
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. By Victor Hugo
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. By Victor Hugo
The greatest favorites of destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme smile is God's alone. By Victor Hugo
To dare; that is the price of progress. By Victor Hugo
He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns. By Victor Hugo
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps. By Victor Hugo
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. By Victor Hugo
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. By Victor Hugo
The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it. By Victor Hugo
Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. By Victor Hugo
Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty. By Victor Hugo
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. By Victor Hugo
Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect. By Victor Hugo
Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over fault. By Victor Hugo
Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault. By Victor Hugo
His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair. By Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. By Victor Hugo
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul. By Victor Hugo
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. By Victor Hugo
When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,Sirius appears, and on the horizon blackBids countless stars pursue their mighty track. By Victor Hugo
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water. By Victor Hugo
To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother. By Victor Hugo
Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul. By Victor Hugo
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. By Victor Hugo
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. By Victor Hugo
If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light. By Victor Hugo
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers. By Victor Hugo
It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced. By Victor Hugo
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness. By Victor Hugo
Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance. By Victor Hugo
Gavroche added: "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack. By Victor Hugo
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege. By Victor Hugo
The true artist can only labor con amore. By Victor Hugo
But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life. By Victor Hugo
Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it. By Victor Hugo
The first symptom of true love in man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. By Victor Hugo
In the domain of art there is no light without heat. By Victor Hugo
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. By Victor Hugo
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! By Victor Hugo
After depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is the other. By Victor Hugo
The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness. By Victor Hugo
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. By Victor Hugo
Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches. By Victor Hugo
First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals. By Victor Hugo
Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! By Victor Hugo
Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin. By Victor Hugo
Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin. By Victor Hugo
For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown. By Victor Hugo
There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul. By Victor Hugo
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. By Victor Hugo
He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. By Victor Hugo
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. By Victor Hugo
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. By Victor Hugo
The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul. By Victor Hugo
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. By Victor Hugo
When liberty returns, I will return. By Victor Hugo
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps By Victor Hugo
Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end. By Victor Hugo
Joy is my character,tis the fault of Voltaire.Misery is my trousseau,tis the fault of Rousseau.Gavroche By Victor Hugo
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman. By Victor Hugo
Momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future. By Victor Hugo
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks. By Victor Hugo
Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body. By Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. By Victor Hugo
I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul. By Victor Hugo
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature. By Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. By Victor Hugo
Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways. By Victor Hugo
To love and be loved, that is the miracle of youth By Victor Hugo
Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. By Victor Hugo
God whose gifts in gracious floodUnto all who seek are sent,Only asks you to be goodAnd is content. By Victor Hugo
Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars By Victor Hugo
great events have incalculable results. By Victor Hugo
This demonstrates the novel truth - that great events have incalculable consequences. By Victor Hugo
For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern. By Victor Hugo
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. By Victor Hugo
What matters it if the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of the sky. By Victor Hugo
At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in heaven. By Victor Hugo
The episcopal palace of D - - adjoins the hospital. By Victor Hugo
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. By Victor Hugo
All the birds that fly hold the thread of infinity in their claws. Germination By Victor Hugo
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. By Victor Hugo
With certain kinds of people,we allow for the potential development of all the beauties of human virtue within a faith that is different from our own By Victor Hugo
I have just met Marius' new hat and new coat, with Marius inside them. By Victor Hugo
What was it but a figure of darkness whose sole care had been to safeguard the rising of a star. And that was Jean Valjean's secret. By Victor Hugo
Love is reducing the universe to one being. By Victor Hugo
I see black light (his last words) By Victor Hugo
There are two stages - living on little, and living on nothing. They are like two rooms, the first dark, the second pitch-black. By Victor Hugo
There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas. By Victor Hugo
The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful ... By Victor Hugo
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. By Victor Hugo
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. By Victor Hugo
We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance. By Victor Hugo
God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being transparent. By Victor Hugo
He who despairs is wrong. Progress infallibly awakens, and, in short, we might say that it advances even in sleep, for it has grown. By Victor Hugo
Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base. By Victor Hugo
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal. By Victor Hugo
His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly. By Victor Hugo
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful? By Victor Hugo
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two. By Victor Hugo
Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another. By Victor Hugo
The bowed frame of an old man is the settlement in the architecture of life. Nature had formed him for sadness. By Victor Hugo
Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life. By Victor Hugo
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. By Victor Hugo
Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material. By Victor Hugo
Once his decision had been taken, he waited for the right opportunity. It was not long coming. Old By Victor Hugo
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity. By Victor Hugo
To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away. By Victor Hugo
Mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. By Victor Hugo
Examine the road over which the fault has passed.- Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel By Victor Hugo
Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one. By Victor Hugo
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young By Victor Hugo
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake. By Victor Hugo
There is a crime commited by the society against the individual,a crime that is commited afresh each day By Victor Hugo
How pretty it is here!It was an awful hovel, but she felt free. By Victor Hugo
To know, to think, to dream. That is everything. By Victor Hugo
The world is like Olympus - even a thief is accepted in it if he is also a god. By Victor Hugo
If nobody loved, the sun would go out. By Victor Hugo
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it. By Victor Hugo
The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay. By Victor Hugo
She took recourse to the expedient of constantly terrified children. She lied. By Victor Hugo
Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze. By Victor Hugo
She imagined that her mother's soul had passed into this good man and had come to live close by her. By Victor Hugo
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. By Victor Hugo
There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched. By Victor Hugo
This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul. By Victor Hugo
He was one of those children most deserving of pity, among all, one of those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. By Victor Hugo
For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. By Victor Hugo
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. By Victor Hugo
To see nothing of a person makes it possible to credit him with all the perfection. By Victor Hugo
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state. By Victor Hugo
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns. By Victor Hugo
Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart. By Victor Hugo
Toleration is the best religion. By Victor Hugo
Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom. By Victor Hugo
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God. By Victor Hugo
Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect. By Victor Hugo
You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up. By Victor Hugo
Ignominy thirsts for consideration. By Victor Hugo
Ignominy thirsts for respect. By Victor Hugo
A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. By Victor Hugo
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open. By Victor Hugo
Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity. By Victor Hugo
She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep. By Victor Hugo
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. By Victor Hugo
And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth. By Victor Hugo
The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest. By Victor Hugo
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. By Victor Hugo
In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet. By Victor Hugo
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right. By Victor Hugo
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. By Victor Hugo
Even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise. By Victor Hugo
Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. By Victor Hugo
Skepticism, that dry rot of the intellect. By Victor Hugo
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. By Victor Hugo
Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other. By Victor Hugo
To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there. By Victor Hugo
He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter is Parisian. In By Victor Hugo
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier. By Victor Hugo
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. By Victor Hugo
To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie. By Victor Hugo
The void in the heart does not accommodate itself to a proxy. By Victor Hugo
Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! By Victor Hugo
What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! By Victor Hugo
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. By Victor Hugo
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. By Victor Hugo
Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity. By Victor Hugo
Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery. By Victor Hugo
Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man. By Victor Hugo
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. By Victor Hugo
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. By Victor Hugo
Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter. By Victor Hugo
In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man. By Victor Hugo
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. By Victor Hugo
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards. By Victor Hugo
When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime! By Victor Hugo
The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it. By Victor Hugo
I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. By Victor Hugo
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. By Victor Hugo
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves. By Victor Hugo
The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral. By Victor Hugo
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly. By Victor Hugo
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. By Victor Hugo
We teachers make the road, others will make the journey. By Victor Hugo
First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it. By Victor Hugo
When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness. By Victor Hugo
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory. By Victor Hugo
They no longer had any hope, but they had despair. Despair is a last weapon that sometimes brings victory; Virgil said so. By Victor Hugo
I was dying when you came. By Victor Hugo
No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern. By Victor Hugo
The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. By Victor Hugo
The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. By Victor Hugo
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. By Victor Hugo
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. By Victor Hugo
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. By Victor Hugo
It's that big guy who's the government. By Victor Hugo
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. By 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. By Victor Hugo
The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep. By Victor Hugo
The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced. By Victor Hugo
The convict was transfigured into Christ. By Victor Hugo
Progress is the life-style of man. By Victor Hugo
Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it. By Victor Hugo
It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. By Victor Hugo
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. By Victor Hugo
Night and the day, when united,Bring forth the beautiful light. By Victor Hugo
In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old. By Victor Hugo
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. By Victor Hugo
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. By Victor Hugo
There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. By Victor Hugo
He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy. By Victor Hugo
Good-will never added an onion to the soup, and is good for nothing but a passport to paradise. By Victor Hugo
He seemed to say to Fate: You wouldn't dare. By Victor Hugo
A chair is not a caste. By Victor Hugo
The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God. By Victor Hugo
God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool. By Victor Hugo
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. By Victor Hugo
You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there. By Victor Hugo
Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive. He had entered in despair; he emerged gloomy. By Victor Hugo
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower. By Victor Hugo
An aged man is a thinking ruin. By Victor Hugo
Certain forms are torn down, and it is well that they should be, but on condition that they are followed by reconstruction. By Victor Hugo
Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens. By Victor Hugo
The highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks. By Victor Hugo
It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past. By Victor Hugo
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good. By Victor Hugo
Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo) By Victor Hugo
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. By Victor Hugo
Books are cold but safe friends By Victor Hugo
He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. By Victor Hugo
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. By Victor Hugo
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. By Victor Hugo
When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. By Victor Hugo
Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man. By Victor Hugo
The earth is a great piece of stupidity. By Victor Hugo
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. By Victor Hugo
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. By Victor Hugo
There must be people who pray even for those who never pray. By Victor Hugo
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. By Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live. By Victor Hugo
One would have called it a luminous wound. By Victor Hugo
Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly. By Victor Hugo
Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people. By Victor Hugo
This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. By Victor Hugo
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. By Victor Hugo
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown. By Victor Hugo
the galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. By Victor Hugo
Society absolutely must look into these things since they are its own work. By Victor Hugo
CHAPTER VI - WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM By Victor Hugo
Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own. By Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. By Victor Hugo
The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber. By Victor Hugo
the phantom of social justice tormented him. By Victor Hugo
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul. By Victor Hugo
your name is My Brother. By Victor Hugo
True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything. By Victor Hugo
In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open. By Victor Hugo
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;She needs the royalty of beauty's mien. By Victor Hugo
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. By Victor Hugo
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. By Victor Hugo
This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. By Victor Hugo
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. By Victor Hugo
As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness. By Victor Hugo
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. By Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. By Victor Hugo
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. By Victor Hugo
sake of exactness By Victor Hugo
To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow". By Victor Hugo
God knows better than we do what we need. By Victor Hugo
What makes night within us may leave stars. By Victor Hugo
He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events. By Victor Hugo
From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered. By Victor Hugo
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue. By Victor Hugo
Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone. By Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world , and that is an idea whose time has come By Victor Hugo
He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601. By Victor Hugo
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil. By Victor Hugo
There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid. By Victor Hugo
It is painful to break the sad links to the past By Victor Hugo
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. By Victor Hugo
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. By Victor Hugo
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. By Victor Hugo
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. By Victor Hugo
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. By Victor Hugo
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection. By Victor Hugo</