Victor Hugo Quotes
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.