Quotes About Grantaire

#1. Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.

Victor Hugo

#2. Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.

Victor Hugo

#3. Be serious," said Enjolras. "I am wild," replied Grantaire.

Victor Hugo

#4. My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

Chris Eigeman

#5. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

Victor Hugo

#6. Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.

Letitia Baldrige

#7. Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

Li Shan

#8. Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.

Victor Hugo

#10. I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Victor Hugo

#11. Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.

Victor Hugo

#12. The theater was empty: nobody had come. Sometimes these things happen, and nobody can say why.
From ""Amandina".

Sergio Ruzzier

#13. Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count to ten - ten of your own.

Suzanne Woods Fisher