Victor Hugo Quotes
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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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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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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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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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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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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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
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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.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.