Bienvenu Quotes

#1. Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions ... and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

Victor Hugo

#2. We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.

John Anderson

#3. What good is a man if he will not defend the honor of the woman he loves? And

Nancy Horan

#4. The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

Victor Hugo

#5. What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.

A.W. Tozer

#6. Examine the road over which the fault has passed.
- Charles Francios Bienvenu Myriel

Victor Hugo

#7. Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#8. When someone is close by, you just know it.

James Dashner

#9. As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Calvin Trillin

#10. In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D - He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D - since 1806.

Victor Hugo

#11. Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.

Victor Hugo

#12. Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Michael Foot

#13. If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good.

Anne Hill

#14. There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

Victor Hugo

#15. CHAPTER V - MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG

Victor Hugo

#16. To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

Victor Hugo