Victor Hugo Quotes
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He does not weep who does not see.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.
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L'œil était dans la tombe et regardait Caïn.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.