Victor Hugo Quotes
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.