Quotes from Victor Hugo

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud, happy, her heart full to overflowing. Jean

Il vient une heure où protester ne suffit plus : après la philosophie, il faut l'action.

Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.

Chapter1 M. Myriel

He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, Examine the road over which the fault has passed.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.

Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.

La doctrina significa aquello que hace que el pueblo esté en armonía con su gobernante, de modo que le siga donde sea, sin temer por sus vidas ni a correr cualquier peligro.

Monsieur to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea. Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.

Cultiven la cabeza del hombre del pueblo, quítenle las malas hierbas, riéguenla, fecúndenla, ilumínenla, llénenla de moralidad, utilícenla: así no tendrán que cortarla

I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, despair; I have darkness in my soul.

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that the rhododendron was happy now.

To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.

And still I am quite cramped with it all!

Senin vazifen, unutmak veya ölmek... Azab?ndan kime ne!

One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a plague of white butterflies in heaven.

Voir mille objets pour la première et pour la dernière fois, quoi de plus mélancolique et de plus profond ! Voyager, c'est naître et mourir à chaque instant.

Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.

The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles.