Top 100 Quotes About Victor Hugo
#1. While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Alexander Steele
#2. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what that means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes have glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. Sophie and the six crewmen might have understood
Kevin Hearne
#3. I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
August Wilson
#4. You've picked up a rummy habit," James Banister said cordially as they approached one another. "Sort of a crouch. You look a bit ... well, I'm sorry, but you look a bit Victor Hugo, if you catch my drift. Would you like to adjourn to a cathedral or something?
Nick Harkaway
#5. Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
Jean Cocteau
#7. I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes and the stars though his soul" - Victor Hugo
Alex Flinn
#8. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas. - Victor Hugo
John C. Maxwell
#9. Victor Hugo famously said, "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Sanjay Khosla
#10. I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
F. Sionil Jose
#11. "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.
Wilferd Peterson
#12. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do, said Victor Hugo.
Anna Quindlen
#13. And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
James Merrill
#14. You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. - VICTOR HUGO
Eric Greitens
#15. It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo
David McCullough
#16. Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines
an actress
say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths." This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#17. Victor Hugo: If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Ayn Rand
#18. Victor Hugo stopped talking and everybody went to bed.
Adele Hugo
#19. There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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#20. The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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#21. Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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#24. The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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#25. What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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#26. The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
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#27. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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#28. I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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#29. During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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#30. Love one another dearly, always. Nothing else in the world really matters but that: to love one another.
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#31. Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
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#32. Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.
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#33. This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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#34. Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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#35. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.
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#36. Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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#38. The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There
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#39. The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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#40. There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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#41. With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles ... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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#42. 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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#43. To confide is sometimes to deliver into a person's power.
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#44. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
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#45. Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.
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#46. What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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#48. There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Miserables.
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#49. It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
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#50. The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a small garden.
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#52. He endeavored to collect his thoughts, but did not succeed. At those hours especially when we have sorest need of grasping the sharp realities of life do the threads of though snap off in the brain.
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#53. We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man.
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#54. The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
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#55. Whom man kill, God restores to life; whom the brothers pursue the Father redeems. Pray and believe and go onward into life. You Father is there.
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#56. It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.
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#57. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
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#58. Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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#59. Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
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#60. As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.
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#61. He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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#62. Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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#63. As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
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#65. some even affirmed that they had passed the night across the threshold of the great door, in order to make sure that they should be the first to pass in. The crowd
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#66. One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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#68. Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
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#69. Certain forms are torn down, and it is well that they should be, but on condition that they are followed by reconstruction.
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#70. The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.
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#71. All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge
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#72. I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
*Fantine
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#73. What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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#74. Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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#75. Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,
Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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#76. Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At
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#77. The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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#78. France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.
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#79. Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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#80. To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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#81. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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#82. Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!
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#83. Ladies, a second piece of advice
do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.
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#84. Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
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#85. The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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#86. It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble.
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#88. Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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#89. Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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#90. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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#91. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.
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#92. It is chiefly at the moment when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain.
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#93. If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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#94. Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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#95. A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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#97. All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other.
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#98. Factions are blind men who aim correctly.
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#99. Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason.
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#100. To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within.
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