Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Vous créez un frisson nouveau.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.
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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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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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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 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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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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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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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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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Morne plaine!
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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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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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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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.