Quotes from Victor Hugo

Os maus têm uma maneira sinistra de ser felizes.

Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.

Hay una manera de huir que parece buscar.

Afirmava que tinha 'um sistema'. No mais, um espertalhão. Um filósofo. Existe gente assim.

L'eccesso del dolore, come l'eccesso della gioia, sono stati d'animo violenti, che durano poco. Il cuore dell'uomo non può restare a lungo in estremo.

Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.

He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.

One hardly dares to say, nowadays, that two beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way.

In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Les recomiendo la moderación en sus deseos. (Tholomyes)

hasret; özlenenden uzak m? kalmakt?r? özlenen yak?ndayken hicran duyulamaz m??

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.

The convict was transfigured into Christ.

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.

Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : ? The publisher's response: !

if merely for the sake of exactness in all points

The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .

Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live

There exist beings who, for the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other payment for their curiosity than curiosity.

If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.

We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

She was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and cried for vengeance, saying: Father, you owe my husband affront for affront. The father asked: On which cheek did you receive the blow? On the left cheek. The father slapped her right cheek and said: Now you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's.