Quotes from Victor Hugo

when both are sincere and good, no men so penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old priest and an old soldier. At bottom, the man is the same. The one has devoted his life to his country here below, the other to his country on high; that is the only difference.

From suffering to suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a war; and that in this war he was the conquered.

All the birds that fly hold the thread of infinity in their claws. Germination

In the final days of Empire, When the people were awakening, It was your smile red carnation which told us that all was being reborn.

The primitive races of mankind were terrified by the hydra that flew upon the water, by the dragon that belched fire, by the griffin, that aerial monster with wings on an eagle and a tiger's claws — fearful creatures beyond the control of men. But man sets his traps, the miraculous traps conceived by human intelligence, and in the end he captured them.

Taisez-vous, qui que vous soyez, vous qui parlez ici, taisez-vous ! vous croyez être dans la question, vous n'y êtes pas.

long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved;

It behooved wise people to play the part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to fasten the doors well.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day. It

for it seems that a woman must needs be a mother in order to be venerable.

so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.

But you must have a ladys maid. Don't I have Marius?

vicdan insan?n içindeki tanr?d?r.

destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.

Everything looked charming to him now. Never again would he read these books, write on this little white wooden table!

Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.

For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner.

At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without

the galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.

La opinión política del señor Mabeuf consistía en amar apasionadamente las plantas, y sobre todo los libros. Tenía, como todo el mundo, su terminación en ista sin la cual nadie hubiera podido vivir en aque tiempo, pero no era ni realista, ni bonapartista, ni carlista, ni orleanista, ni anarquista: era librista.

pedantry. What was this excess of love? It was a serene

To be nothing where he had been everything was an unendurable decline.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil.